Just 28 days before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row, converting them to life sentences.
AP report A long list of convicted criminals are guilty of a variety of criminal acts, including killing police officers and military personnel, people on federal property, people involved in deadly bank robberies and drug deals, and killing security guards. He will be exempted even after he is sentenced. or a prisoner in a federal facility.
“I have dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” Biden said in a statement accepting the commutation.
“Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 federal death row inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole. This is consistent with the moratorium placed on federal executions.”
This diagram details the methods used in all U.S. death penalty executions since 1977. Data source: Death Penalty Information Center. (Graphic: Visual Capitalist, Getty Images)
The three remaining inmates on federal death row are Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who helped carry out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and Dylann Roof, who shot and killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. Includes prisoners.
Robert Bowers, the man on death row who killed 11 Jewish worshipers in the 2018 shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue, will also remain on death row.
In making the announcement, Biden launched a political attack on President-elect Donald Trump, saying, “I cannot in good conscience allow a new administration to resume executions that I have stopped.”
The Associated Press noted that President Trump, who will be inaugurated on January 20th, has frequently spoken out about expanding the use of the death penalty.
in a speech Announcement of 2024 campaignPresident Trump has sentenced anyone “caught selling drugs” to death for their heinous acts.
He then promised to execute drug smugglers and human smugglers during his first term as president. He also advocated the death penalty for drug dealers..
As Breitbart News previously reported, in early December, Pope Francis called on people to pray “for America's death row inmates” and appealed for the “possibility of a commutation” of their sentences.
