Family of murdered SC woman rages at Biden for commuting killer’s sentence

Family a Bank clerk in South Carolina killed during a robbery in 2017 is angry after President Biden commuted her killer’s death sentence just days before Christmas.

Now Donna Major’s family is struggling through the holiday season, shaken by the news that a convicted felon has been shown the mercy he refused to show others.

“I was angry. I’m still angry. I’m upset that this is even happening, that one man can make a decision like this without even talking to the victims, regardless of what we’ve been through, that we’re going completely hurt, frustrated and angry ” Major’s daughter Heather Turner said Tuesday on “Fox & Friends.”

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“She was shown no mercy. This man walked into the bank, didn’t say two words to her. He shot her a total of three times. He also went and shot her co-worker, Katie Skeen, who was completely helpless and unaware of what was happening.” , Majora’s husband, Danny Jenkins, added during the show.

“I can’t even believe this is actually happening…”

Career criminal Brandon Council was among 37 inmates whose federal death sentences were commuted to life in prison by President Biden earlier this week.

Video surveillance with Double homicide from 2017 shows the Council entering the CresCom Bank in Conway, South Carolina, approaching Major and having a brief conversation with her before pulling out a gun and shooting her multiple times.

He then jumped over the counter and opened fire on 36-year-old cashier Kathryn Skeen, killing her as well.

President Biden addressed the replacements in the statementsaying, “I am commuting the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole. These changes are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder, not you are wrong: I condemn these killers, I grieve for the victims of their despicable acts. I feel pain for all the families who have suffered an unimaginable and irreparable loss.

“But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice president, and now president, I am more convinced than ever that we must end the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and allow a new to the administration to continue the executions that I stopped.”

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“Squad” Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., praised the decision as a display of “moral” and “compassionate” leadership on CNN Monday, arguing that the death penalty is “not a proven deterrent to crime.”

“Compassion? I don’t think it’s compassion,” Katie Jenkins, also Major’s daughter, responded Tuesday.

“The fact that he [Biden] he didn’t talk to any of us, the victims of this crime… we trusted the justice system. We have served our court. I watched my mother being killed. I looked at pictures of her body lying on the ground. He has no compassion. For whom? Criminal? No, I don’t agree with that. I don’t agree with that at all.”

Turner said the family heard back in May that commutation might be a possibility and began writing letters to a clemency attorney seeking an in-person meeting in Washington, D.C.

“We were rejected,” she said. “They denied us the right to have our voices heard. We are victims. My mother was murdered by Brandon Council. They needed to hear our story. And all we got was a 10-minute virtual conference and it’s clear that it fell on deaf ears did not want to hear our story.”

The only federal death row inmates excluded from Biden’s replacement were Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tree of Life Synagogue attacker Robert Bowers and Dylan Roof, who was responsible for the 2015 killing of nine African-Americans at a Charleston church.

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