A convicted youngster assassin whose demise sentence was commuted by former President Biden throughout his final weeks in workplace has been indicted by a Louisiana Grand Jury for a similar heinous crime.
A Catahoula Parish Grand Jury will search the demise penalty for Thomas S. Sanders — 15 years after he kidnapped and murdered Las Vegas woman Lexis Roberts, 12, in line with KALB.
The killer had been sentenced to demise row by a federal jury in Louisiana in September 2014 after a four-year trial — throughout which he admitted to killing Lexis and her mom, Suellen — a sentence he later appealed within the Federal Courtroom of Appeals in New Orleans in 2020.
Biden granted the sicko clemency in December 2024 and commuting his demise sentence to life in jail with out the opportunity of parol.
Nonetheless, Catahoula Parish District Legal professional Bradley R. Burget mentioned he’ll pursue the demise penalty for the kid assassin on the state stage, which may undo Biden’s act of clemency.
“In 2010, the state deferred prosecution to the federal authorities, who successfully prosecuted and achieved justice for Lexis,” Burget mentioned, in line with the Mississippi outlet Natchez Democrat.
“Yet, Mr. Biden commuted the federal death sentence imposed on Mr. Sanders to a sentence of life in prison choosing to spare the life of a convicted child killer over the victim, Lexis Kaye Roberts.”
Sanders was working in a warehouse in Las Vegas in the summertime of 2010 when he met Roberts’ mom and began relationship.
Two months into their relationship, Sanders, Suellen, and Roberts took a visit to the Grand Canyon over Labor Day weekend, in line with the Division of Justice.
As they had been getting back from Nevada, Sanders drove off right into a distant location within the Arizona desert and shot Suellen and kidnapped the 12-year-old, preserving her captive for a number of days as he drove throughout the nation.
He later shot the Roberts 4 occasions and reduce her throat in a distant wooded space of Catahoula Parish. Hunters discovered her physique on Oct. 8, 2010, over a month after she was murdered.
A nationwide manhunt ended with police capturing the kid assassin at a truck cease in Mississippi greater than a month later.
“This is a heartbreaking case,” Assistant Legal professional Basic Leslie R. Caldwell mentioned on the time of Sander’s sentencing in 2014.
“A young girl witnessed the murder of her mother, was held captive for days, and had her life cut tragically short by a senseless, brutal murder. We hope today’s verdict will help Lexis’ family as they continue to struggle with the loss of their loved ones.”
Biden ended up commuting his sentence and the sentences of 36 different males on federal demise row, together with at the least 4 different youngster killers and a number of other mass murderers, as certainly one of his final acts as president.
President Trump — who was awaiting to take workplace for his second time period — bashed Biden for the transfer, which was introduced on Christmas Day.
“[T]o the 37 most violent criminals, who killed, raped, and plundered like virtually no one before them, but were just given, incredibly, a pardon by Sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump wrote on Reality Social.
“I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky ‘souls’ but, instead, will say, GO TO HELL!” he added.
