Retiring Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., slammed President Joe Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences of two men convicted in the murder of Mountain State daughter Samantha Burns.

On Monday, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, changing the sentences to life in prison without parole ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House on Jan. 20.

“After speaking to Samantha Burns’ parents, I believe it is my duty to speak on their behalf and say President Biden’s decision to commute the death sentences for the two men convicted in her brutal murder is horribly misguided and insulting,” Manchin wrote Thursday in a thread on social platform X.

Read more at Newsmax© 2024 Newsmax. All rights reserved.