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Evil doesn’t get a pass just because a pen scratches paper in Washington. Thomas Sanders, a 67-year-old plop of human excrement who kidnapped and slaughtered 12-year-old Lexis Roberts, thought he’d cheated the needle when Joe Biden commuted his death sentence to life in 2024.
But Louisiana isn’t done with him. Not by a long shot.
Back in 2010, Sanders, a warehouse grunt in Las Vegas, wormed his way into the life of Lexis and her mother, Suellen. Two months into dating Suellen, he sweet-talked them into a Labor Day road trip to the Grand Canyon. Sounds wholesome, right? Except this wasn’t a family vacation—it was a death march.
Back in 2010, Sanders, a warehouse grunt in Las Vegas, wormed his way into the life of Lexis and her mother, Suellen. Two months into dating Suellen, he sweet-talked them into a Labor Day road trip to the Grand Canyon. Sounds wholesome, right? Except this wasn’t a family vacation—it was a death march.
On the way back, Sanders veered off I-40 into the Arizona desert, gunned down Suellen, and snatched Lexis. For days, he dragged that terrified 12-year-old across the country, a predator with a child in his claws, until he hit Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. There, in a wooded patch, he shot her three times in the head, once in the chest with a .22 rifle, and, for good measure, slit her throat with a homemade knife.
Hunters found her body in October 2010. A nationwide manhunt ended with Sanders cuffed at a Mississippi truck stop in November.
A Louisiana federal jury didn’t flinch in 2014. They convicted Sanders for kidnapping and murder—the first death penalty handed down in the Western District of Louisiana’s federal court. Justice, hard and cold, was served. Until Biden, in his final days as the 46th president, decided to play God. He commuted Sanders’ sentence, one of 37 death row inmates spared. Why? Nobody’s got a good answer other than the probability that Biden's handler[s] rather than himself, did the commuting because Biden's brain was on par with gum.
Catahoula Parish District Attorney Brad Burget sure as hell doesn’t want to play God.
A Louisiana federal jury didn’t flinch in 2014. They convicted Sanders for kidnapping and murder—the first death penalty handed down in the Western District of Louisiana’s federal court. Justice, hard and cold, was served. Until Biden, in his final days as the 46th president, decided to play God. He commuted Sanders’ sentence, one of 37 death row inmates spared. Why? Nobody’s got a good answer other than the probability that Biden's handler[s] rather than himself, did the commuting because Biden's brain was on par with gum.
Catahoula Parish District Attorney Brad Burget sure as hell doesn’t want to play God.
“I found it outrageous that President Biden would use this clemency power to commute the sentence of the child killer,” Burget told Fox News Digital on Thursday. “Whatever your politics are doesn't matter. This is a 12-year-old who watched her mother be brutally killed by Mr. Sanders. Then, he kidnapped her and traveled halfway across the United States to rural Catahoula Parish in Louisiana, where he shot this 12-year-old three times in the head and once in the chest with a 22-caliber rifle and then slit her throat with a homemade knife.”
You feel that? That’s the weight of a child’s life snuffed out, and a president’s signature saying it doesn’t matter.
Burget’s had enough. On Monday, he hauled Sanders’ case before a Catahoula Parish grand jury, slapping him with state charges. See, when Sanders was nabbed in 2010, the feds took the lead, and a local warrant got buried. Now, Burget’s dusting it off. “This child suffered a horrible death,” he said.
“And I think the only penalty for Sanders is the death penalty. The federal prosecutor did a wonderful job and presented the case to their jury, sought justice and got justice for Alexis and her family. And then Joe Biden decided to undo that with the signing of his signature. I don't understand why.”
Louisiana law don’t let district attorneys like Burget charge capital offenses solo—grand juries call those shots. So, Burget laid out the evidence, raw and unsparing, and the jury indicted Sanders on state charges. Now, it’s a new game. “I think we'll be successful, but only time will tell,” Burget said. “I'll put it in the hands of a jury … when the jury makes a decision, you have to respect that. I respect the Catahoula Parrish jury will make the right decision when I present the case to them.”
This isn’t about politics. It’s about a little girl who never got to grow up, a mother gunned down in the desert, and a system that sometimes forgets what justice looks like. Sanders thought he’d dodged his reckoning.
Burget’s had enough. On Monday, he hauled Sanders’ case before a Catahoula Parish grand jury, slapping him with state charges. See, when Sanders was nabbed in 2010, the feds took the lead, and a local warrant got buried. Now, Burget’s dusting it off. “This child suffered a horrible death,” he said.
“And I think the only penalty for Sanders is the death penalty. The federal prosecutor did a wonderful job and presented the case to their jury, sought justice and got justice for Alexis and her family. And then Joe Biden decided to undo that with the signing of his signature. I don't understand why.”
Louisiana law don’t let district attorneys like Burget charge capital offenses solo—grand juries call those shots. So, Burget laid out the evidence, raw and unsparing, and the jury indicted Sanders on state charges. Now, it’s a new game. “I think we'll be successful, but only time will tell,” Burget said. “I'll put it in the hands of a jury … when the jury makes a decision, you have to respect that. I respect the Catahoula Parrish jury will make the right decision when I present the case to them.”
This isn’t about politics. It’s about a little girl who never got to grow up, a mother gunned down in the desert, and a system that sometimes forgets what justice looks like. Sanders thought he’d dodged his reckoning.
Catahoula Parish says otherwise.
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