John Fetterman: My Top Priority is Ending Life in Prison Without Parole for Convicted Criminals

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John Fetterman: My Top Priority is Ending Life in Prison Without Parole for Convicted Criminals

John Binder 26 Aug 2022

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), running against Dr. Mehmet Oz for the state’s open United States Senate seat, has said that his top priority is ending life in prison without the possibility of parole for convicted criminals.

During an interview with Jason Flom on the Righteous Convictions podcast in November 2021, Fetterman named ending life without parole for convicted criminals as his priority above all other issues facing Pennsylvanians.

The interview went as follows:

    FLOM: If you had a magic wand and you could wave it and fix one thing, what would it be?
    FETTERMAN: Life without parole in Pennsylvania. We could save billions in revenue in long term, we could save thousands of lives, and not make anyone less safe. And also, [it] expunges many permanent records of people that have been living their best lives and have been paying well beyond when they should have for a charge that they caught 10, 15, 20 years ago.

The remarks come as Fetterman’s jailbreak initiatives have come to light as he faces Oz in the state’s highly contested Senate race.

Fetterman, as Breitbart News reported, has overseen the release of 13 convicted murderers while heading the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons. Likewise, one of Fetterman’s appointees to the board sought to end mandatory life without parole sentences for first and second-degree murderers.

In 2021, Fetterman advocated for eliminating the state’s mandatory life without parole sentence for suspects convicted of second-degree murder.

“It is not justice for most of these people to be serving the same sentence as the Tree of Life shooter who murdered 11 people in their synagogue,” Fetterman said of ending mandatory life without parole sentences. “It doesn’t make sense and it doesn’t make us any safer, and it isn’t what justice would ask of us.”

In 2019, Fetterman successfully lobbied the Board of Pardons to eliminate application fees for convicts seeking pardons. Also that year, Fetterman hired two former inmates convicted of murder who had their life sentences commuted by Gov. Tom Wolf (D).

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/26/john-fetterman-life-without-parole/

[The_Reader_David]

Well, there are two ways to do that:  one is to allow parole no matter how heinous the crime, the other is to replace life without parole with the death penalty, for which it was supposedly a humane substitute.

However, closer examination shows that the headline is misleading.  Fetterman is not on a crusade for either of the options to totally eleminate all life-without-parole sentences.  Fetterman objects to a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without parole for second degree murder, regarding it as disproportionate to apply the same sentence to a person who committed a single second degree murder when the same sentence applies to people convicted of first degree or multiple second degree murders.

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His priority is like every other Democrat politician's priority: getting wealth for himself.

Fetterman Opposes School Vouchers for the Poor. He Sends His Kids To One Of PA’s Priciest Prep Schools.
Chuck Ross • August 26, 2022 4:59 am
Free Beacon

Pennsylvania Senate hopeful John Fetterman (D.) opposes vouchers that let children in failing public school districts attend private and charter schools. But the progressive champion, who lives in one of Pennsylvania’s worst performing school districts, sends his kids to an elite prep school.

Fetterman’s kids attend the Winchester Thurston School in Pittsburgh, where parents pay up to $34,250 for a "dynamic" learning environment and an "innovative" approach to teaching. They would otherwise go to schools in Woodland Hills School District, where graduation rates are far below the state average.

The local elementary school that serves Fetterman’s town of Braddock is in the bottom 15 percent of the state in academic performance. Fetterman and his wife Gisele have sent at least one of their three kids to Winchester Thurston for the past seven years.

A 2018 news article mentioned that Fetterman sends his kids to a private school in Pittsburgh, though the school was not identified. Gisele Fetterman has been a "WT parent" since at least 2015. Last year, Winchester Thurston praised Gisele, a "WT Mom," for her help on an art project.  ...

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[mountaineer]

As bad as Oz may be, do we really want this?

This is why I call him the doper caveman.

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Oz Campaign: PolitiFact Covering Up ‘Fetterman’s Radical Positions’ on Emptying PA Prisons by One-Third

Pennsylvania Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz’s U.S. Senate campaign blasted PolitiFact, saying it is “cover[ing] up for” his Democrat opponent “John Fetterman’s radical positions on putting criminals back on the streets.” 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/29/oz-campaign-slams-politifact-over-fetterman-fact-check/