Kaboni Savage: President Biden commutes death sentence of Philadelphia drug kingpin
PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia criminal convicted of masterminding a dozen murders, including a devastating house fire that killed four children two decades ago, was just granted life in prison by President Joe Biden.
Kaboni Savage was sentenced to death for ordering the firebombing of a federal informant's home in 2004, killing his mother, young son and four other relatives.
The drug kingpin was also found guilty in six other murders, including a man scheduled to testify against him and rival drug dealers.
On Monday, Savage was named as one of 37 federal death row inmates whose sentences were commuted by President Biden.
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President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment.
It includes people convicted in killings, including the murders of police and military officers, people on federal land and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals, as well as the killings of guards or prisoners in federal facilities.
"Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole," Biden said in a statement.
There are now just three federal inmates still facing execution:
Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of life Synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.