When I read that the Fetterman campaign was walking back his pledge from last year to free all 2nd-degree murderers from prison after a review, I couldn’t help but think of Jon Lovitz and his pathological liar skits from Saturday Night Live. My favorite was the one where he claimed to be married to sex symbol, Morgan Fairchild.
Fetterman is a terrible candidate to begin with, and health wise, he doesn’t seem to be in the best shape, but he leads by a thin margin in every poll.
In fact, the only reason he is winning is because Oz, his Republican opponent, is a terrible candidate who abandoned Trump right after he helped him win the primary and who says he would have certified Biden’s win in 2020.
Fetterman tried three times to release 1/3 of the inmates from prison in Pennsylvania. Why is he running for the Senate? I suspect it’s because his parents supported him until he was fifty and he wants the taxpayers to carry him the rest of the way.
Fetterman, the Pennsylvania lieutenant governor who chairs the state’s Board of Pardons (BOP), commissioned two reports last year released by Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity (PLSE) that recommended the BOP consider merit-based clemency for currently incarcerated second-degree murderers, as well as for the state legislature to reform the law that mandates life sentences without parole for second-degree murder convictions.
And *massive* annual savings for PA taxpayers.
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Otherwise, that metaphor is very much the face of LWOP- especially 2nd Murder- in PA.
Mercy must be a partner to justice.
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) May 4, 2021
During a PLSE press conference on March 1, 2021, Fetterman made the claim that reports documented “the lives that are destroyed” and “the resources that are wasted” by locking up people who murder other people and his recommendation could free up to 1,200 killers.
“I hope that it could lead to a conversation that would free close to 1,200 people of a legacy that never made sense, that encompasses victims’ input, encompasses their conduct and behavior in prison, it takes a look at the resources that are wasted that…,” he said.
At the time, PLSE reported that there were 1,166 people incarcerated in the state serving life sentences without parole for second-degree murder.
According to FindLaw, a law information website powered by Thomson Reuters, second-degree murder is generally defined as any intentional killing that is not premeditated or planned, although the definition varies by jurisdiction. In Pennsylvania, second-degree murder also encompasses accomplice liability and applies when someone dies related to a felony, which is defined as committing, attempting to commit, or fleeing from an act of robbery, burglary, kidnapping, rape, or arson.
Fetterman said:
“I always want to err on the side of mercy. Juvenile lifers released by a Supreme Court decision, the recidivism rate was less than 1%. That’s a remarkable statistic. That demonstrates that these individuals, once they are released, are not Hannibal Lecters, they’re out living their best lives. … You age out of crime. Now imagine people who have never taken a life to begin with, imagine what that recidivism rate would be.”
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