Commutation · Jan 20, 2001

David Ronald Chandler

Northern Alabama

Life sentence commuted

Life imprisonment

Original sentence

Offenses

Capital offense: Murder while engaged in and working in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise
21 U.S.C. § 848(e) Non-capital offenses: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute over 1
000 kilograms of marijuana and 1
000 marijuana plants
21U.S.C. §§ 846 and 841(a)(1); engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise
21 U.S.C. § 848(a); using or carrying of a firearm in relation to a drug-trafficking crime (two counts)
18 U.S.C. § 924(c); money laundering (four counts)
18 U.S.C. § 1956

Original Sentence

Death by lethal injection; concurrent life sentence on non-capital counts (Terms: Death sentence commuted to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole; )

Case Details

Clemency Type

Commutation

Grant Date

January 20, 2001