It’s part of a pattern for Fetterman, who has repeatedly highlighted his support to end mandatory minimum life sentences in Pennsylvania for people convicted of second-degree murder. He has said clemency should be granted to those who “did not pull the trigger” but were instead accomplices to killings.
But a Washington Free Beacon analysis found the Democrat has voted to commute the prison sentences of at least 13 people convicted of first-degree murder, including some who admitted to their crimes. That was the case last year when Fetterman cast the only vote on the Board of Pardons to commute the sentence of Wayne Covington, who was convicted in 1970 for fatally shooting an 18-year-old for money to buy heroin. Covington was sentenced to life in prison for first-degree murder after he admitted to the killing in order to avoid the death penalty, the Free Beacon reported.
Fetterman’s latest defense comes as Republicans hammer him over his progressive positions and his leadership of the Board of Pardons.
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