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   CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Seven people sentenced to death in the   
   Carolinas were among the more than three dozen federal death row inmates   
   to have their sentences commuted earlier this week.   
      
   The group who are now incarcerated with life sentences includes a gang   
   leader, a kidnapper, and a bank robber all convicted of murder in either   
   North or South Carolina.   
      
   The family of bank teller Donna Major were quick to blast the   
   commutations, which were ordered on Dec. 23 by President Joe Biden.   
   Brandon Council shot and killed Major and her co-worker during a robbery   
   in Conway, South Carolina, in 2017.   
      
   Major’s daughter, Katie Jenkins, spoke with Fox News.   
      
   “We trusted the judicial system, we sat through court, I watched my mom be   
   murdered, I watched images of her body laying on the ground,” said   
   Jenkins.   
      
   The commutations also included Alejandro Umana, a Charlotte man who is   
   part of the gang MS-13. He was sentenced to death in 2010 after being   
   convicted of fatally shooting two brothers in a Greensboro restaurant   
   after they called Umana’s gang signs “fake.” During his trial, Umana   
   attempted to bring a knife into the courtroom.   
      
   Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks are also among those who have new   
   sentences. After they escaped from a Kentucky prison, the pair kidnapped   
   Alice Donovan from a South Carolina Walmart. Her family waited years   
   before her remains were finally discovered.   
      
   Donovan’s daughter, Angie Gilchrist, spoke with Queen City News’ Jody Barr   
   in 2008.   
      
   “I want to hear the words, ‘It’s Alice Donovan, it’s your mom.’” she told   
   Barr. “Just so that I can finally release everything I have been holding   
   inside for six years so that I can actually cry and mourn the loss of my   
   mother.”   
      
   Richard Jackson will also be given a life sentence. He was on death row   
   for raping and killing Karen Styles while she was out for a run in Pisgah   
   National Forest.   
      
   In a statement, President Biden condemned the inmate’s crimes but said   
   that his conscience guided him to his decision, “… 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.”   
      
   Biden had issued a moratorium on most federal executions when he came into   
   office.   
      
   Only three federal inmates remain on death row, they face either terrorism   
   or mass murder convictions. That includes the Tree of Life synagogue   
   shooter, one of the Boston bombers, and Dylann Roof, the gunman who killed   
   nine people at a Charleston, SC, church in 2015.   
      
   https://www.yahoo.com/news/families-carolina-murder-victims-react-   
   223537465.html   
      
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