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Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings?

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With Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations will stop another federal execution spree. Five days after Orlando Hall was executed in the federal death chamber, Donald Trump appeared in the White House Rose Garden for the 2020 Thanksgiving turkey pardon ceremony. The enormous white birds, Corn and Cob, stood ridiculously as Trump wished them a “very long, happy, and memorable life.” At the Special Confinement Unit inside the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, men on death row watched news coverage on TV.

Massachusetts | Convicted Murderer Gary Lee Sampson Dead At 62

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Gary Lee Sampson, who was sentenced to the death penalty in connection with the murders of 2 Massachusetts men and a 3rd man in New Hampshire, has died in a prison facility.

According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons database, the 62-year-old Sampson died Tuesday.

Sampson was initially sentenced to death in 2003 for killing 19-year-old Jonathan Rizzo and 69-year-old Philip McCloskey. 

The decision was later overturned by a judge after finding a juror lied about her background.

In 2017, a federal jury decided Sampson would receive the death penalty for Rizzo, but not McCloskey.

Sampson was also serving a separate life sentence fore killing Robert “Eli” Whitney in New Hampshire.

Prosecutors said Sampson tricked the carjack victims into thinking he would spare their lives but then stabbed them more than a dozen times, slit their throats and left them to die in the woods.

Source: boston.cbslocal.com, Staff, December 25, 2021


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