CBS12: “Where is the justice for the Escobedo family that was murdered in cold blood?”

That was the question Sheriff Keith Pearson asked after learning outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of two men who killed a family of four on the Turnpike in St. Lucie County.

“Waking up to news that Joe Biden commuted the death sentence for Ricardo Sanchez (Jr.) and Daniel Troya, minimizing it to a life sentence, is disheartening,” the St. Lucie County sheriff continued.

With less than a month to go in his term, President Biden revealed Monday that he commuted the sentences against Sanchez, Troya, and 35 other federal inmates who were condemned to die. His reprieves spared all but three people who were on the U.S. government’s death row.

Pearson argued the Biden Administration’s “woke ideology” led to its decision to issue the commutations, adding, “these two earned their right to die for the heinous crimes they committed.”

Sanchez and Troya’s convictions came after the 2006 killing of Jose Luis Escobedo, Luis Damian Escobedo, Luis Julian Escobedo, and Yessica Guerro Escobedo on the Turnpike. The pair were accused of stopping the Jeep Cherokee and shooting the mother, father, and two children and leaving them there.