Biden Commuts Sentences of 37 Federal Death Row Inmates to Life in Prison

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Biden Commuts Sentences of 37 Federal Death Row Inmates to Life in Prison
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President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. This decision, made just weeks before President Trump's potential return to office, has drawn sharp criticism from Trump supporters and victims' families. Biden stated that the commutations align with his administration's moratorium on federal executions, excluding terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder cases.

President Joe Biden speaks during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals, as well as the killings of guards or prisoners in federal facilities.

Heather Turner, whose mother was killed during the 2017 robbery of a Conway, South Carolina, bank, blasted the decision in a social media post, saying Biden didn't consider the victims of these crimes. “This was a crime against a race of people who were doing something all Americans do on a Wednesday night — go to Bible study,” Graham said. “It didn’t matter who was there, only that they were Black.”on federal capital punishment to study the protocols used, which suspended executions during Biden's term. But Biden actually had promised to go further on the issue in the past, pledging to end federal executions without the caveats for terrorism and hate-motivated, mass killings.

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