US_ Murder-Rape Victim's Mother: Biden Can't Justify Commutations

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Murder-Rape Victim's Mother: Biden Can't Justify Commutations

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 28 December 2024 11:52 AM EST


A Michigan woman whose 19-year-old daughter was raped and murdered is speaking out after President Joe Biden commuted the attacker's sentence from death to life in prison.

"Those that don't believe in the death penalty I believe, honestly, that they have never been traumatized by somebody so vile, that they couldn't comprehend where I'm coming from," the girl's mother, Velda Robinson, told The Detroit News this week. "They really shouldn't judge me for wanting it."

Robinson's daughter, Rachel Timmerman, was raped. In 1997, she and her family warned police that her attacker Marvin Gabrion would kill her.

He kidnapped Timmerman and murdered her. Her body was found in the Manistee National Forest. Her mouth and eyes were taped shut, and chains had been padlocked around her body. Her 11-month-old daughter, Shannon, has never been found.

Gabrion was sentenced to death in 2002, and has been appealing the ruling for 22 years before Biden commuted his sentence.

Just three men still face the death penalty: Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who bombed the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring dozens of others; and Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015.

Robinson told The Detroit News that the death sentence for such crimes is important.

"People need to know that when you do something so heinous, you ain't going to get away with it," she said. "How does Biden justify whose crime is worse than the others? [The jury] made this decision and he just slapped the whole judicial system down."

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READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/politics/biden-commutations-death-row/2024/12/28/id/1193144/

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