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SENATE RESOLUTION 25--CONDEMNING THE COMMUTATION OF THE DEATH SENTENCE 
OF MARVIN CHARLES GABRION II GRANTED BY PRESIDENT BIDEN ON DECEMBER 23, 
                                  2024

  Mr. COTTON submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Judiciary:

                               S. Res. 25

       Resolved,

     SECTION 1. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE COMMUTATION OF 
                   THE DEATH SENTENCE OF MARVIN CHARLES GABRION II 
                   GRANTED BY PRESIDENT BIDEN ON DECEMBER 23, 
                   2024.

       It is the sense of the Senate that--
       (1) President Joseph R. Biden undermined the rule of law 
     and robbed victims of justice when he commuted the death 
     sentence of Marvin Charles Gabrion II on December 23, 2024;
       (2) Marvin Gabrion was sentenced to death for murdering 19-
     year-old Rachel Timmerman just 2 days before she was 
     scheduled to testify that Gabrion had abducted and raped her;
       (3) Marvin Gabrion was also the prime suspect in the 
     disappearance and murder of several other individuals, 
     including Rachel Timmerman's 11-month-old daughter and 2 
     potential witnesses at his rape trial;
       (4) this commutation is a reprehensible insult to the 
     victims of Marvin Gabrion;
       (5) President Biden claimed that he commuted the death 
     sentences of Marvin Gabrion and 36 other murderers out of a 
     principled opposition to the death penalty but refused to 
     commute the death sentences of the 3 most controversial death 
     row inmates, demonstrating that President Biden was motivated 
     by politics, not principles; and
       (6) the Senate unequivocally condemns this commutation.

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