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“Where is the Justice for the Escobedo Family?” – St. Lucie County Sheriff on Biden’s Pardon of Two Killers

Crooked and corrupt Joe Biden commuted the sentence of dozens of death row inmates today. 

In Florida, two men were taken off of death row by Biden.

Two men sentenced to die more than a decade ago for the brutal murder of a West Palm Beach family on the Turnpike had their sentenced commuted to life in prison.

Outgoing President Joe Biden announced dozens of commutations for federal inmates on death row early Monday morning. Among those no longer slated to be executed are Ricardo Sanchez, Jr., and Daniel Troya who shot and killed a mother, father, and their two young children.

The murders occurred early in the morning of October 13, 2006, when the pair stopped the family’s Jeep Cherokee along the Turnpike, outside of Fort Pierce.

Each family member – Jose Luis Escobedo, Luis Damian Escobedo, Luis Julian Escobedo, and Yessica Guerro Escobedo – was shot and their bodies were left there. Sanchez and Troya drove off in both their Dodge Ram van and the Escobedo’s black Jeep Cherokee.

St. Lucie County Sheriff asked why Biden did this.

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“Where is the justice for the Escobedo family that was murdered in cold blood?”

That was the question Sheriff Keith Pearson asked after learning outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of two men who killed a family of four on the Turnpike in St. Lucie County.

“Waking up to news that Joe Biden commuted the death sentence for Ricardo Sanchez (Jr.) and Daniel Troya, minimizing it to a life sentence, is disheartening,” the St. Lucie County sheriff continued.

With less than a month to go in his term, President Biden revealed Monday that he commuted the sentences against Sanchez, Troya, and 35 other federal inmates who were condemned to die. His reprieves spared all but three people who were on the U.S. government’s death row.