Heinous double-murderer spared death sentence by Biden now wants to be freed, arguing ‘compassionate release’

A cold-blooded killer who was spared the death penalty by President Biden is now demanding he be set completely free — because prison is just too awful.

Brandon Council, 38 — who killed two moms working at a bank — filed a motion Friday claiming the Indiana federal prison where he is staying is one of the worst in the world and that his solitary confinement has been tantamount to illegal torture.

The convicted double-murderer said he has endured “severe, unnecessary, and unjustifiable psychological harm” at FCI Terre Haute since his sentencing in 2019 and deserves “compassionate release.”

The conditions “can only be accurately construed and assimilated as an act of torture,” Council claimed, according to the Daily Mail.

Brandon Council had his Death Row sentence commuted by President Biden — but that’s not good enough. Conway Police Dept

The killer con wrote in his motion that the conditions have violated his constitutional rights based on his claims of “torture” and that he should therefore walk free.

The demand came just days after Biden infamously commuted the death sentences of Council and 36 other Death Row inmates Dec. 23 in one of his last acts in office.

The president’s action reduced their sentences to life in prison instead of execution.

Council was sentenced to death in 2019 for the heinous 2017 murders of two South Carolina bank employees and mothers — 59-year-old Donna Major, and 36-year-old Kathryn Skeen — during a bloody robbery.

Donna Major, a 59-year-old mom, was working in a bank when she was mercilessly murdered by Council. Courtesy Heather Turner

Council went into the CresCom Bank in Conway that August day with the intent of killing, according to US Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina. He didn’t hesitate to shoot Major several times as she sat behind a counter. He then went into Skeen’s office and gunned her down, too.

He made off with $15,000 cash and the keys to both his victims’ cars.

Biden — who opposes the death penalty — acknowledged that the heinous crimes committed by Council and the other Death Row inmates were “despicable acts,” even as he bestowed leniency on them.

After his action, only three people — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers, and Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof — remain on Death Row.

Kathryn Skeen, 39, was a teller at the same bank when she was killed.

The day after Biden’s decision, Trump vowed to “vigorously pursue the death penalty” once he takes office Jan. 20.

This was not the first time Council has attempted to alter his sentence on similar grounds.

At least three times — in 2019, 2022, and 2023 — Council has filed motions asking to be removed from solitary confinement and claiming the treatment was akin to torture and therefore illegal, according to WMBF.

Each request has been denied, the outlet reported.

Council went into the CresCom Bank in Conway, SC, in 2017 with the intent to kill, according to prosecutors. WBTW

Compassionate releases are typically used for disabled or severely sick patients.

Majors’ family voiced its disgust for Biden’s decision — saying the president never consulted them to see how they felt.

“I’m still angry. I am upset that this is even happening, that one man can make this decision without even talking to the victims, without any regard for what we’ve been through, what we’re going through, and completely hurt, frustrated and angry,” Major’s daughter, Heather Turner, told Fox & Friends.

Major’s husband, Danny Jenkins, said of his slain wife, “She was shown no mercy at all.

“This man walked into the bank, never said two words to her. Shot her three times in total. He went and shot her coworker, Katie Skeen as well, who was totally defenseless and unaware of anything happening.”

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