Brandon Council, sentenced to death for the 2017 murders of two South Carolina bank employees, filed a motion claiming his solitary confinement at FCI Terre Haute is illegal torture and violated his constitutional rights. He seeks compassionate release based on the alleged psychological harm he endured.
Brandon Council, 38 — who killed two moms working at a bank — filed a motion Friday claiming the Indiana federal prison where he is staying is one of the worst in the world and that his solitary confinement has been tantamount to illegal torture.
The convicted double-murderer said he has endured “severe, unnecessary, and unjustifiable psychological harm” at FCI Terre Haute since his sentencing in 2019 and deserves “compassionate release.”The killer con wrote in his motion that the conditions have violated his constitutional rights based on his claims of “torture” and that he should therefore walk free.New suspects in mysterious case of murdered millionaire, aide after 30 years, 5 trials and overturned conviction Hulking trans child molester repeatedly sexually assaulted female cellmate after being transferred to women's prison: suitThe president’s action reduced their sentences to life in prison instead of execution. Council was sentenced to death in 2019 for the heinous 2017 murders of two South Carolina bank employees and mothers — 59-year-old Donna Major, and 36-year-old Kathryn Skeen — during a bloody robbery.Council went into the CresCom Bank in Conway that August day with the intent of killing, according to US Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina. He didn’t hesitate to shoot Major several times as she sat behind a counter. He then went into Skeen’s office and gunned her down, too.Biden — who opposes the death penalty — acknowledged that the heinous crimes committed by Council and the other Death Row inmates were “despicable acts,” even as he bestowed leniency on them. After his action, only three people — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers, and Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof — remain on Death Row.This was not the first time Council has attempted to alter his sentence on similar grounds. At least three times — in 2019, 2022, and 2023 — Council has filed motions asking to be removed from solitary confinement and claiming the treatment was akin to torture and therefore illegal,Majors’ family voiced its disgust for Biden’s decision — saying the president never consulted them to see how they felt. “I’m still angry. I am upset that this is even happening, that one man can make this decision without even talking to the victims, without any regard for what we’ve been through, what we’re going through, and completely hurt, frustrated and angry,” Major’s daughter, Heather Turner, told Fox & Friends.“This man walked into the bank, never said two words to her. Shot her three times in total. He went and shot her coworker, Katie Skeen as well, who was totally defenseless and unaware of anything happening.”New suspects in mysterious case of murdered millionaire, aide after 30 years, 5 trials and overturned conviction Hulking trans child molester repeatedly sexually assaulted female cellmate after being transferred to women's prison: suitAll of Team Joe aided in the Big Lie -- now the world knows the truth of the Biden crime familyThe 25 Best Christmas Movies of All Time Jenna Bush Hager Confesses On ‘Today’ She Doesn’t “Wear Panties” – Then Asks Producers To “Cut Out” That Moment From The BroadcastKathryn Skeen, 39, was a teller at the same bank when she was killed.
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