2Pac‘s stepfather Mutulu Shakur has been denied a “compassionate” release from federal prison even after a judge acknowledged that his health has worsened.
According to a report from VladTV on Tuesday (September 13), U.S. Senior District Judge Charles S. Haight wrote in an 11-page document that the First Step Act — which Shakur’s attorney cited to justify his release — doesn’t apply to any conviction that happened before November 1987.
Mutulu Shakur was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison in 1988 after he was convicted of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, bank robbery, armed bank robbery, bank robbery murder in 1984 as well as assisting 2Pac’s step-aunt Assata Shakur in her escape from a New Jersey prison in 1979.
“This is a difficult case. The government does not question the dire nature of Shakur’s present medical condition,” Haight wrote. “Shakur also submits testimonials which describe his rehabilitation in prison and humanitarian assistance he has rendered to other inmates.
“On the other hand, members of the family of the Brinks employee who was killed during the crimes of conviction have written to the Court, expressing their continuing grief and opposition to any reduction in Shakur’s sentence.”
In July, Shakur’s attorney Brad Thomson revealed the late rapper’s stepfather was diagnosed with a rare and incurable form of blood cancer. Doctors had given the 71-year-old up to six months to live, and fellow activists were fighting to get the former member of the Black Liberation Army released from prison so he could say his last goodbyes to his family.
“His health situation is extremely dire right now,” Thomson told NBC News. “He’s very much on an end-of-life trajectory. We’re looking at a matter of months at the most but, realistically, it could be a matter of days or weeks.”
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Shakur applied for a “compassionate release” in May 2020 following his diagnosis, but Haight denied the request, claiming his health was still okay and that his crimes were extremely severe. Shakur is currently incarcerated at a federal medical center in Lexington, Kentucky.
“Should it develop that Shakur’s condition deteriorates further, to the point of approaching death, he may apply again to the Court, for a release that in those circumstances could be justified as ‘compassionate,'” Haight said in the ruling at the time via NBC News.
News of Shakur’s unsuccessful plea for compassionate release comes as the 26th anniversary of 2Pac’s death passed on Tuesday (September 13).
The Death Row Records rapper was shot on September 7, 1996, at the intersection of East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane in Sin City where Pac attended a Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand earlier in the night. He died in hospital six days later at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada.
Of course it is
He should be released from prison and start his life anew out in society family.
“he a gud boi. he din du nufin”
you need a fucking good whack fella. you just live up the road from me huh.
Shut up you fuckin n4gg3r lover wet back bea-ner.
from everything i have read from 2pac over the years not once did i think he came off as being racist. he picked up his testimonials from someone so it must have been his step father even if he was in prison. i don’t know really like racist rhetoric anti-white this and anti-white that just ask the question was he wronged by white people personally along the way and especially like he must have felt during the days of black segregation in the 60s’ nowadays they hate on the gays ah fuck it. but he is not well what were the reasons for not releasing him given his last few months to live come on now judge.
The family of the person he killed were whining to the court
“Whining”. Yeah, so if your family is murdered, you better not try to get the killer locked up. Just hold their hand and pray for their change, so they don’t murder more innocent people.
Hey guys, I’m murderer. But 2Pac was the son of a woman I was banging and I never met. Please let me out of jail soon for some murders because of that?
Actually, Pac was around nine when Mutual got incarcerated, his early child hood was Fillrd with Mutulu, he wasn’t just “banging his mom”, they were married from around the time Afini got out of jail, she was pregnant with Pac when the married, which is why Pac has his last name. Yes Mutulu did murder people, but not out of spite or malice. I understand that people like to get on these web pages and say what ever comes to mind, but we should really try to at least have an inkling of knowledge of the situation before we just say some shit. Mutulu was and still is a revolutionary, he fought long and hard for the liberation of black people and eventually lost his freedom because of the struggle for some sort of black civil respect. The more you know the more you grow ??♂️
U right.and he has been in there for a long time now.yes he killed somebody and I’m sorry for there loss.but its time to let him go so he can say his final goodbye to his family.after all he is dying.he been in there since 1988.and its 2022.
Payback for Asata escaping to Cuba…
These JUDGES gonna GO TO HELL And GOD gonna JUDGE THEM!!
Indeed. On another note, if someone robbed and murdered your family member, I’m certain you wouldn’t want them to be imprisoned. You’d want them to continue with freedom! Remember, if someone you know is murdered, advocate for the killers release! It’s your way home.
If Thats the case, he should’ve been executed for his crimes. Who needs 60 year to reconsider a bad decision?
They ALL will face the same judgement they put out. What goes around does come around and we live more than once.
That’s great news. We don’t need such dangerous savage roaming the streets free like a bird, just because he used to have sex with a celebrity’s mother. He did the crime so let him pay for it too. If he was let free he’d be back on the corner drinking 40 oz, smoking dope and shooting dice, back to his criminal lifestyle. Let him rot in prison.
Who needs, or could do 60 years?