“John Fetterman wants to “eliminate life sentences for murderers.”
What PolitiFact found
Fetterman has not called for eliminating life sentences for murder. He advocates eliminating the Pennsylvania law mandating life-without-parole sentences in "felony" murder cases, in which the defendant is an accomplice.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mehmet Oz (2022 Republican candidate for Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat) made this claim around 28 July 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 August 2022, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Mehmet Oz has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G9-Hlc4eeY
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