A New England man who was on demise row after he “senselessly killed” and was indicted for sending bomb threats to the house of former President George H. W. Bush is on President Biden’s federal demise row commutation checklist.
Whereas 53-year-old Maine man Charles Corridor is on the commutation checklist, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was left off the checklist as a result of Biden didn’t embrace terrorism circumstances.
Corridor (federal prisoner #03766-036) was initially sentenced to 16 years in federal jail after a Maine grand jury indicted him for phoning in bomb threats to Bush’s Kennebunkport house, the Portland Worldwide Jetport and an workplace constructing in Portland — in addition to sending threatening letters to the U.S. Lawyer in Maine.
Then, Corridor was given the demise penalty for murdering one other inmate. In 2010, Corridor and fellow inmate Wesley Coonce Jr. on the U.S. Medical Middle for Federal Prisoners in Missouri killed one other inmate, Victor Castro-Rodriguez, 51.
Each Corridor and Coonce had been sentenced to demise after they had been discovered responsible of 1 depend of homicide within the first diploma. Coonce was additionally discovered responsible of 1 depend of homicide by an inmate serving a life sentence.
Coonce can be on Biden’s federal demise row commutation checklist. Corridor and Coonce now face life sentences with out the opportunity of parole.
“Two federal inmates senselessly killed another inmate, and today, they have been brought to justice,” Assistant Lawyer Basic Leslie Caldwell of the Justice Division’s Legal Division stated when the pair was sentenced to demise in 2014. “The Justice Department is committed to ensuring the safety and security of all Bureau of Prisons employees and inmates.”
“Achieving justice sometimes requires us to ask our citizens to make the most difficult sentencing decisions,” added U.S. Lawyer Tammy Dickinson of the Western District of Missouri. “We appreciate their patience and commitment throughout trial. The defendants’ conduct strikes at the heart of our justice system, which depends upon the safety and security of our penal institutions. Mr. Castro was targeted for murder, in part, because he intervened to help a Bureau of Prisons employee as he was being attacked by another inmate.”
Corridor again in 1999 confronted an 11-count federal indictment after he phoned in a collection of bomb threats. He was accused of constructing cellphone bomb threats in opposition to Portland Worldwide Airport, which brought on the ability to shut briefly.
Corridor additionally was accused of constructing bomb threats in opposition to Bush’s Kennebunkport house, and making a bomb risk in opposition to an workplace constructing often called One Metropolis Middle. He additionally despatched threatening letters to Jay McCloskey, the U.S. Lawyer in Maine, whose workplace was investigating Corridor for the One Metropolis Middle bomb risk.
On the time of the threats, Corridor was being held on the Cumberland County Jail. No bombs had been present in any of the threatened places.
Corridor was one in all 37 people on federal demise row who had their sentences commuted by Biden on Monday.
“I’ve dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” the president stated in a press release. “Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole. These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.
“Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden added. “But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”
These commutations come after Biden introduced clemency for about 1,500 individuals — essentially the most ever in a single day. That clemency checklist included Bay Staters who had been sentenced for fentanyl trafficking and oxycodone trafficking.
