President Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 federal inmates before Donald Trump's potential return to office, where he signaled a willingness to resume federal executions.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — US President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row, ahead of the return to power of Donald Trump , who has indicated that he would restart federal executions.Three men were excluded from the move: one of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers, a gunman who murdered 11 Jewish worshippers in 2018 and a white supremacist who killed nine Black churchgoers in 2015.
Democrat Biden had imposed a moratorium on the federal death penalty but was under pressure to act further before leaving the White House on January 20, amid signals from Republican Trump that he would resume the practice.Those who had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole included nine people convicted of murdering fellow prisoners, four for murders committed during bank robberies and one who killed a prison guard.'Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,' Biden said in a statement.'But guided by my conscience and my experience... I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.'Trump's team blasted the 'abhorrent' decision.'These are among the worst killers in the world and this abhorrent decision by Joe Biden is a slap in the face to the victims, their families, and their loved ones,' Trump communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement.Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson also said the decision was a 'slap in the face to the families who have suffered immeasurably at the hands of these animals.'Trump ended a 17-year pause in federal executions in 2020, during his first term in offic
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