President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 federal inmates on death row, including murderers who killed families and predators who murdered children. The news highlights several cases, including those of Ricardo Sanchez, Jr., and Daniel Troya, convicted of murdering an entire family, and Thomas Sanders, convicted of kidnapping and murdering a 12-year-old girl.
President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates on death row on Monday — including cold-blooded murderers who had killed entire families, and predators who had slaughtered innocent children. For example, Ricardo Sanchez, Jr., and Daniel Troya had been convicted for the brutal murder of an entire family.
As Palm Beach, Florida, CBS affiliate 12 News, the murders occurred early in the morning of October 13, 2006, when the pair stopped the family’s Jeep Cherokee along the Turnpike, outside of Fort Pierce. Each family member – Jose Luis Escobedo, Luis Damian Escobedo, Luis Julian Escobedo, and Yessica Guerro Escobedo – was shot and left their bodies there. Sanchez and Troya drove off in both their Dodge Ram van and the Escobedo’s black Jeep Cherokee. In 2009, Daniel “Homer” Troya and Ricardo “Ricky” Sanchez, Jr. were convicted of carjacking resulting in death and other felonies for their roles in the 2006 deaths of Jose “Lou” Escobedo, his wife Yessica, and their two young sons aged 4 and 3. Their bodies were found riddled with bullets off the side of Florida’s Turnpike in Port St. Lucie. Federal prosecutors said that their drug trafficking boss, Danny Varela, ordered the hit to wipe out a large drug debt and to steal 15 kilos of cocaine Escobedo, who was the group’s cocaine smuggler, had with him at the time. Sanchez and Troya followed the Escobedos north to the Daytona Beach area where Jose made the drug pickup, and then killed them on the Turnpike, prosecutors said. Another death row prisoner, Thomas Sanders, had been convicted in 2014 for kidnapping and murdering a 12-year-old girl. According to FBI, Sanders met Suellen Roberts, 31, in the summer of 2010 when Roberts rented a storage unit at a warehouse in Las Vegas where Sanders worked
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