Months after then-President Joe Biden commuted a child murderer’s sentence, the killer is once again facing the death penalty.
Thomas Sanders had been on death row since 2014, when he was convicted for murdering 12-year-old Lexis Roberts, according to KALB-TV in Louisiana.
In December 2024, Sanders was appealing his sentence at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans when Biden commuted his and 36 other inmates‘ sentences to life in prison.
But on Monday, a grand jury in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, indicted Sanders for first-degree murder, according to the Louisiana Radio Network.
Now he faces the death penalty once more.
“The jury in Catahoula will first determine whether or not Mr. Sanders is guilty of first degree murder,” said Brad Burget, the district attorney in Catahoula and Concordia parishes.
“And if they choose to find him guilty of first degree murder, then it will move to a penalty phase and the jury will hear aggravating and also mitigating circumstances. And based on that, they’ll have to make the decision whether or not it’s a life imprisonment or the death penalty,” he said.
This is who Joe Biden cares about. The Biden administration just commuted the death