President Biden commutes sentences of 37 on death row. What it means.
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 people on death row, which means those individuals will have their sentences changed from execution to life without parole, the White House said in a press release on Monday.
Biden commutes sentences of nearly all federal death row inmates
Activists have called for Biden to commute the sentence of many or all federal death row inmates for some time. More than 130 civil and human rights groups penned a letter to the president in early December calling on him to commute the sentences of "all individuals on federal death row."
Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates to life in prison without possibility of parole
President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences​. Their sentences will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Trump tells 37 people with sentences commuted by Biden to ‘go to hell’ in lengthy Christmas post
President-elect Trump on Wednesday used a lengthy Christmas Day social media post to tell the 37 people who had their death sentences commuted by President Biden to “go to hell.”
Trump Vows to Pursue Executions After Biden Commutes Most of Federal Death Row
President-elect Donald Trump says he'll “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing fo
Biden death row commutations include six men convicted in Virginia
Of 37 federal prisoners whose punishments were reduced to life in prison, two committed murders in Northern Virginia and four killed people elsewhere in the state.
In commuting death sentences, Biden is a strong counter to Trump
Recent polling shows support for the death penalty at a five-decade low, and half of the population thinks the death penalty is applied unfairly.
Its ‘tough to imagine’ a ‘victim-focused’ decision when it comes to Biden’s death row commutations, ex-prosecutor says
Former assistant U.S. attorney Derek Shoemake reacts to President Biden commuting many federal death sentences on ‘The Story.’
Pressley praises Biden for saving death row inmates
Rep. Ayanna Pressley said President Biden’s decision to commute the sentences of nearly all the people on federal death row was a “historic and groundbreaking act.”
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