President Biden recently announced that he will commute the sentences of 37 people on federal death row.
One of those men has a connection to York.
According to a fact sheet provided by the White House, 49-year-old Kaboni Savage of Philadelphia, who had been awaiting federal execution since 2014 when he was convicted of killing 12 people, including a family of six, in a 2004 firebombing, will serve his sentence is reclassified from execution to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Ciara Savage was shot dead in York in 2009.
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Savage was the first Philadelphia man in modern history to receive a federal death sentence.
His daughter, 9-year-old Ciara “CeCe” Savage, of Lancaster, was shot in the back during a drive-by shooting on May 10, 2009, by Nigel Ali Maitland, who was 19 at the time.
A few streets away, York’s annual Mother’s Day Street Fair was in full swing at the time of the murder, with thousands of people gathering around the stands on Market Street.
Maitland targeted rival gang members when Savage was shot amid gunfire.
The young child was a third grader at Ross Elementary School in Lancaster at the time and was visiting relatives in the 500 block of South Duke Street and playing with a group of children.
On April 7, 2011, a jury convicted Maitland of first-degree murder, and he was sentenced to life in prison.
A memorial on South Duke Street in memory of Ciara Savage with toys, candles and her photo on May 13, 2009.
This article originally appeared on York Daily Record: A killer Biden off death row has a York PA connection
