There should be legislation that bars lame ducks from pulling this crap in their last few months in office…
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is using his last months in office to release dozens of inmates convicted of homicide — and says many more are coming, according to NJ 101.5.
Since December 2024, Murphy has granted clemency to 283 offenders, including 31 people convicted of murder, felony murder, or aggravated manslaughter, according to NJ 101.5. Some had been serving life sentences or faced decades before being eligible for parole. All will now walk free with five years of supervision.
The governor fast-tracked the releases after creating a new Clemency Advisory Board. In November alone, he freed 23 convicted killers. Murphy has defended the move by highlighting a few cases involving women he says were victims of abuse and “received excessive sentences.”
Actually curious, because I don’t know - of the Jan 6th participants that were pardoned by Trump, how many had been convicted of assault or murder of police officers?
UNION BEACH, NJ — On his final day in office Tuesday, Gov. Phil Murphy granted clemency to Maria Montalvo, a Union Beach woman currently serving a 100-year prison sentence for killing her baby daughter and toddler son in 1994, after she poured gasoline on them and burned them to death while they were strapped to their car seats.
Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond Santiago said he was in “revulsion and disbelief” at Murphy’s decision.
“I cannot express strongly enough our office’s collective revulsion and disbelief upon hearing this news,” Santiago told the Asbury Park Press. “Providing this defendant the opportunity to apply for an early parole, with a full half of her sentence still to be served, is the polar opposite of justice.”
Montalvo, now 61, was convicted of two counts of murder, two counts of felony murder and arson. She was sentenced in 1997. With Murphy’s decision, she will become immediately eligible for parole based on good behavior in prison. …
