By Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC Philadelphia
Philadelphia drug kingpin Kaboni Savage has been awaiting federal execution since 2014 when he was convicted of murdering 12 people, which included a family of six killed in a brutal firebombing.
Five years later, Savage, now 44, remains entangled in the criminal justice system as he appeals his death sentence.
Thursday’s announcement from U.S. Attorney General William Barr reinstating federal executions will do nothing to expedite Savage’s sentence, according to a spokesperson for U.S. Attorney William McSwain, who represents the Eastern District including Philadelphia.
Savage is the only inmate from Pennsylvania on federal death row, but he is not among the five scheduled to be executed as early as December 2019, according to the Department of Justice.
The family Savage firebombed in 2004 belonged to Eugene Coleman, his former confident turned FBI informant. In retaliation, Savage killed Coleman’s mother plus his cousin, his infant son and three other children. Coleman was in prison at the time.
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Kaboni Savage is also discussed in Black Brothers, Inc.: The Violent Rise and Fall of Philadelphia’s Black Mafia (Milo, 2007).
