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The man from South Carolina convicted of the brutal double murder of two bank employees in 2017, is seeking “compassionate relief” days after President Biden spared his life and commuted his death sentence.
Brandon Council, 28, was convicted in September 2019 of the double murder of Conway bank employees Katie Skeen, 36, and Donna Major, 59, in 2017. Council was then sentenced to death in federal court a month later.
Council was one of 37 federal death row inmates whose sentences were commuted to life in prison by Biden.
On Friday, the panel filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Florence, arguing that he deserves “compassionate relief” because he was subjected to “severe, unnecessary and unjustifiable psychological injury” that “can only be accurately construed and assimilated as an act of torture,” since is from 04.11.2019. permanently placed in solitary confinement. according to records obtained by WBTW.
Brandon Council is one of 37 federal death row inmates who avoided execution following President Biden’s decision to commute their sentences. (DeathPenaltyInfo.org)
Compassionate dismissal describes American Bar Association as a process by which prisoners may seek early release, whether from community supervision or their communities, due to extraordinary or exigent circumstances.
Several people openly disagreed with Biden’s decision to commute the death penalty, including Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., who called the decision “disgraceful.”
“Biden’s move to pardon 37 federal death row inmates — including 3 South Carolina men who committed unspeakable acts — continues to shock Americans across the country. This decision is shameful. It’s high time America returned to the land of law and order,” Fry he wrote in a post on X.
In another post after the announcement, Fry added that Biden’s decision “shames the memories of victims across the country.”
“Joe Biden’s death row pardon shames the memories of victims across the country, like Donna Major of Conway and Katie Skeen of Green Sea. This shows a shocking disregard for the pain of innocent families, right on Christmas Day. January 20th can’t come soon enough,” he wrote said Fry in his post on X.
Tail. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., echoed Fry and called Biden’s actions “senseless.”
“President Biden’s decision to commute the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates isn’t just senseless — it’s an outrageous example of this administration’s twisted and backwards ideology,” Meuser wrote in a post on his X account.
During the interview with “Fox & Friends”, Major’s family said they were furious after Biden commuted her killer’s death sentence just days before Christmas.
“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 during an interview on Christmas Eve.
Donna Major, 59, and Kathryn (Katie) Skeen, 36, were killed in cold blood by Brandon Council while robbing a bank in South Carolina in 2017. (Derek Shoemake)
“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 believe this is actually happening…”
Council spent a week at a motel across the street from CresCom Bank in Conway, South Carolina, where he watched the movie “Get Rich or Die Trying” before going in with a gun and killing both Skeen and Major.
Council had a felony conviction at the time and told the FBI agent that he went to the bank knowing he would kill someone during a robbery.
He had been on parole for a month at the time of the murders, which occurred during his second bank robbery since being released from prison.
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to end it The Biden-Harris administration moratorium on federal executions when he returns to office.
Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Christmas Day to call out Biden for his decision to switch.
“They know their only chance of survival is to get a pardon from a man who has absolutely no idea what he’s doing,” Trump’s post read.
“Also, for 37 of the most violent criminals who killed, raped and robbed like almost no one before them, but were just given, amazingly, a pardon by Sleepy Joe Biden. I refuse to say Merry Christmas to those lucky ‘souls’ but instead, they will say, GO TO THE DEVIL!” Trump continued.
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The US government has executed 50 prisoners since 1927, according to the Bureau of Prisons, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Cold War spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. This is far less than individual states that have executed more than 1,500 condemned prisoners in the last 50 years.
The government executed 13 federal prisoners during Trump’s first term, the most under any president in a century.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz and Taylor Penley and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Stepheny Price is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Tips and story ideas can be sent to stepheny.price@fox.com
