Biden spares Philly killer and drug lord from execution – NBC10 Philadelphia

Biden spares Philly killer and drug lord from execution – NBC10 Philadelphia

On Monday, President Joe Biden announced he would commute the sentences of 37 inmates to federal death sentences, reclassifying them to life in prison without the chance of parole.

The move left only three people on federal death row: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that left three people dead and more than 250 injured, and Robert Bowers, the convicted of killing 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 and Dylann Roof, convicted of killing nine people in a shooting in the Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina, was condemned in 2015.

Among those whose sentences will be downgraded to life without the possibility of parole is Kaboni Savage, a convicted Philadelphia drug lord who was awaiting execution for his role in the deaths of 12 people.

In 2013, Savage was convicted of what the Associated Press called “killing witnesses, rivals and strangers during a ruthless reign at the head of a drug empire in North Philadelphia.”

He was convicted of killing two women and four children after ordering an associate to set fire to the home of an informant in 2004, as well as rivals and a stranger who hit his car.

Savage received 13 death sentences after the lengthy federal trial.

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