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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on December 15, 2022, 09:41:11 AM
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‘Horrified and Outraged’: Murder Victims’ Families Rip Oregon Governor for Commuting Death Sentences
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/horrified-and-outraged-murder-victims-families-rip-oregon-governor-for-commuting-death-sentences/
The family members of Oregon murder victims are tearing into Gov. Kate Brown (D.) for commuting the sentences of the state's 17 death row inmates.
"I'm horrified and outraged and I don't know what this means. … Will true life be true life?" said Sue Shirley, whose parents were murdered in 1988. "All I know is that we never get to have a say."
Brown was a popular scapegoat during the 2022 Oregon gubernatorial race for a slew of failed left-wing policies on homelessness and crime. Even her former Democratic ally Tina Kotek, who in November was elected the Beaver State's next governor, distanced herself from Brown's record and attacked the outgoing governor in debates and interviews.
Brown's office did not respond to a request for comment. Oregon has not executed an inmate since the 1990s.
Talk about a major league snafu.
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1. Note that Brown didn't do this before the election. Surprise, surprise, surprise!
2. Supposedly the sentences are being commuted to "life without possibility of parole". Does anyone not negotiating to get toll concession rights for the Brooklyn Bridge believe that every one of these murderers will die in prison?
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1. Note that Brown didn't do this before the election. Surprise, surprise, surprise!
2. Supposedly the sentences are being commuted to "life without possibility of parole". Does anyone not negotiating to get toll concession rights for the Brooklyn Bridge believe that every one of these murderers will die in prison?
Couple of thoughts: If Oregon truly has a sentence of Life w/o Parole a commuted death sentence would normally go to LWOP.
2 - GA created it's Parole Board in 1943 due, in part, to this issue and has taken that power from the Governor via a State Constitutional Amendment.