Sentenced to death under a Biden law — and now hoping for Biden’s mercy

Norris Holder, who’d lost his leg in a train accident, was dependent on an ill-fitting prosthetic in 1997 when he and an accomplice robbed the Lindell Bank & Trust in St. Louis. He was 21 and, his lawyer says, desperate for money to buy a better artificial leg and ease his excruciating pain.

But during the robbery, a security guard was shot and killed, Holder had difficulty escaping and he was quickly arrested..