Trump blasts Biden's federal death row commutations: 'Makes no sense'
Trump took aim Tuesday at Biden’s decision to commute the sentences of nearly all federal death row prisoners, adding to the backlash in an unprecedented move that has brought both criticism and praise.
Readers disagree with Biden’s decision to commute 37 death row sentences. Here’s why.
If [Biden] disapproved of the applicable federal law, he should have tried to change it democratically – not swept it aside,” one respondent said.
'A mistake': Biden faces backlash upon commuting sentences of death row inmates
The Democratic president also faced criticism from some anti-death penalty activists who said he didn't go far enough, including a family member of one victim, who said Biden's commutations should have extended to the other three federal inmates facing the death penalty.
Biden commutes most federal death sentences
He left intact the death sentences of the men convicted of "terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder" in the 2015 Charleston church shooting, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and 2018 massacre at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue.
Joe Biden Not Commuting Dylann Roof's Death Sentence Sparks Backlash
The president commuted the death sentences of almost all of the men on federal death row, but left out three of the most well-known, including Roof.
Biden death row commutations met with praise, condemnation in Ohio
President Joe Biden announced the commutation of all but three men on federal death row, including an Ohio man convicted of killing a Columbus police officer in 2005. The president’s actions struck a chord in the state;
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."
Full List of Death Row Sentences Joe Biden Commuted
Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said.
Trump has Christmas Eve meltdown over Biden’s commutation of nearly every federal death row prisoner’s sentence
Less than a month before Trump takes office, Biden removed 37 people from death row who were all convicted of murder charges
President Joe Biden commutes death row sentence of Len Davis, an ex-New Orleans cop
In 1996, the former NOPD officer was found guilty of orchestrating the killing of Kim Groves, a woman who had filed a complaint against him.
2 Georgia men among federal death row inmates spared by President Joe Biden
Two of the federal inmates on death row whose lives have been spared by President Joe Biden are from the state of Georgia.
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President Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates so Donald Trump can't have them executed
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to ...
Joe Biden’s Moral Wisdom
The president has commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole, a historic move.