Biden spares Philly killer, drug kingpin from execution – NBC10 Philadelphia

On Monday, President Joe Biden made the announcement he would commute the sentences of 37 inmates on federal death rowand reclassified them to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The move left only three people on federal death row: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that left three dead and more than 250 injured, Robert Bowers, who was convicted of killing 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 and Dylann Roof, who was convicted of killing nine people in a 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Among those who will see their sentences reclassified to life without the possibility of parole is Kaboni Savage, a convicted drug kingpin in Philadelphia who was awaiting execution for his role in the deaths of 12 people.

In 2013, Savage was convicted of what the Associated Press called, “killing witnesses, rivals and strangers alike during a ruthless reign at the top of a North Philadelphia drug empire.”

He was convicted of killing two women and four children after in 2004 he ordered an employee to firebomb the home of an informant as well as rivals and a stranger who had bumped into his car.

Savage received 13 death sentences after the lengthy federal trial.