Financial institution killer makes wild request after Biden commuted loss of life sentence

A South Carolina man convicted within the brutal double homicide of two financial institution workers in 2017 is asking for a “compassionate launch” days after President Biden spared his life and commuted his loss of life sentence. 

Brandon Council, 28, was convicted in September 2019 within the 2017 double homicide of Conway financial institution workers Katie Skeen, 36, and Donna Main, 59. Council was then sentenced to loss of life by a federal courtroom one month later.

Council was one in all 37 federal inmates on loss of life row who had their sentences commuted to life in jail by Biden.

On Friday, Council filed a movement within the U.S. District Court docket in Florence arguing that he deserved a “compassionate launch” as a result of he had been subjected to “extreme, pointless, and unjustifiable psychological hurt” that “can solely be precisely construed and assimilated as an act of torture,” since he was completely housed in solitary confinement since Nov. 4, 2019, in accordance with information obtained by WBTW. 

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Brandon Council is one in all 37 federal loss of life row inmates who escaped execution following President Biden’s resolution to commute their sentences. (DeathPenaltyInfo.org)

A compassionate launch is described by the American Bar Group as the method by which these incarcerated could search early launch, whether or not to group supervision or to their communities, on account of extraordinary or compelling circumstances.

A number of folks have overtly disagreed with Biden’s resolution to commute the loss of life sentences, together with Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., who mentioned the choice was “shameful.”

“Biden’s transfer to pardon 37 federal loss of life row inmates – together with 3 males from South Carolina who dedicated unspeakable acts – continues to shock Individuals nationwide. This resolution is shameful. It’s excessive time to return America to a rustic of legislation and order,” Fry wrote in a publish on X.

Fry added in one other publish following the announcement that Biden’s resolution “disgraces victims’ reminiscences nationwide.”

“Joe Biden’s clemency for loss of life row inmates disgraces victims’ reminiscences nationwide, like Donna Main of Conway and Katie Skeen of Inexperienced Sea. This reveals stunning disregard for harmless households’ ache, proper at Christmas. January 20 can not come quickly sufficient,” Fry wrote in his publish on X. 

Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., echoed Fry and known as Biden’s actions “mindless.”

“President Biden’s resolution to commute the sentences of 37 federal loss of life row inmates is not only mindless—it is an outrageous instance of this administration’s the other way up and backwards ideology,” Meuser wrote in a publish on his X account.

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Throughout an interview with “Fox & Buddies,” Main’s household mentioned they had been furious after Biden commuted her killer’s loss of life sentence simply days earlier than Christmas.

“I used to be offended. I am nonetheless offended. I’m upset that that is even taking place, that one man could make this resolution with out even speaking to the victims, with none regard for what we have been by way of, what we’re going by way of, and utterly damage, annoyed and offended,” Main’s daughter Heather Turner mentioned through the Christmas Eve interview.  

Donna Main, 59, and Kathryn (Katie) Skeen, 36, had been killed in chilly blood by Brandon Council whereas he robbed a South Carolina financial institution in 2017. (Derek Shoemake)

“She was proven no mercy in any respect. This man walked into the financial institution, by no means mentioned two phrases to her. Shot her thrice in complete. He went and shot her coworker, Katie Skeen as effectively, who was completely defenseless and unaware of something taking place,” Main’s husband, Danny Jenkins, added through the present.

“I am unable to even consider that that is really taking place…”

Council spent every week at a motel throughout from the CresCom Financial institution in Conway, South Carolina, the place he watched the film “Get Wealthy or Die Tryin'” earlier than he went in with a gun and killed each Skeen and Main. 

Council already had a previous felony conviction on the time and informed an FBI agent that he went into the financial institution realizing he would kill somebody through the theft.

He had been on parole for a month on the time of the murders, which got here throughout his second financial institution theft since leaving jail.

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President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to finish the Biden-Harris administration’s moratorium on federal executions when he returns to workplace.

Trump took to his social media platform, Fact Social, on Christmas Day to name out Biden for his commutation resolution. 

“They know that their solely likelihood of survival is getting pardons from a person who has completely no thought what he’s doing,” Trump’s publish learn. 

“Additionally, to the 37 most violent criminals who killed, raped, and plundered like just about nobody earlier than them, however had been simply given, extremely, a pardon by Sleepy Joe Biden. I refuse to want a Merry Christmas to these fortunate ‘souls’ however as an alternative, will say, GO TO HELL!” Trump continued. 

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The U.S. authorities has executed 50 inmates since 1927, in accordance with the Bureau of Prisons, together with Oklahoma Metropolis bomber Timothy McVeigh and Chilly Conflict spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. That is far fewer than the person states, which have executed greater than 1,500 condemned inmates within the final 50 years.

The federal government carried out loss of life sentences for 13 federal prisoners throughout Trump’s first time period, probably the most below any president in a century.

Fox Information Digital’s Michael Ruiz and Taylor Penley and The Related Press contributed to this report.