A Michigan woman whose 19-year-old daughter was raped and murdered is speaking out after President Joe Biden commuted the attacker’s sentence from death to life in prison.

“Those that don’t believe in the death penalty I believe, honestly, that they have never been traumatized by somebody so vile, that they couldn’t comprehend where I’m coming from,” the girl’s mother, Velda Robinson, told The Detroit News this week. “They really shouldn’t judge me for wanting it.”

Robinson’s daughter, Rachel Timmerman, was raped. In 1997, she and her family warned police that her attacker Marvin Gabrion would kill her. 

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