Prosecutors say a 21-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022.

A 21-year-old Florida man was sentenced Monday to three and a half years in prison for firebombing a Southern California Planned Parenthood clinic in 2022, federal prosecutors said.

Xavier Batten pleaded guilty in January to one felony count of possessing an unregistered destructive device and one misdemeanor count of intentionally damaging a reproductive health services facility.

U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney also sentenced Batten, of Brooksville, Florida, to three years of probation and ordered him to pay $1,000 in restitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

Carney said Batten had committed a “cowardly crime” that showed “no empathy for women and their rights,” according to the statement. He has been in federal custody since July 2023.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
      71·
      1 month ago

      I am not saying that what this guy did wasn’t horrible and violent. 3 years is a pathetic consequence for what amounts to a terror attack.

      But how the fuck was this “treason”? I get that it’s trendy to call Conservatives traitors, but we can at least understand what the word means before we use it every time a conservative does something bad…

      Furthermore, no crime should carry death as a penalty, because the government shouldn’t have that kind of power over their citizens, no matter what crime they commit.

    • Drusas@kbin.run
      6·
      1 month ago

      This isn’t treason; it’s terrorism. Literally terrorism, and the guy got only three years for it.