Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, Except for a Few. The death penalty is not the hot-button political issue it was during the 1980s and ’90s,
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole, before he hands power to President-elect Donald Trump on Jan.
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.
President Biden helped Christmas come early for 37 men on federal death row when he commuted their sentences to life without parole, many of them put there for the most heinous crimes.
The Biden administration has withdrawn two major plans to deliver student loan forgiveness. The proposed regulations would have allowed the secretary of the U.S. Department of Education to cancel student loans for several groups of borrowers, including those who had been in repayment for decades and others experiencing financial hardship.
If you follow the news, you've seen Joe Biden shuffling across the White House lawn or looking lost at public events POTUS holds.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office.
The action converted the sentences of those on federal death row to life imprisonment without parole, leaving only three inmates awaiting federal execution.
Donald Trump was planning another “execution spree” on federal death row. That won’t happen after Joe Biden commuted many prisoners’ death sentences.
The move affects 37 men, including Ronald Mikos, a 76-year-old Illinois doctor. Mikos, the oldest man on federal death row, is only the second person sentenced to capital punishment in the history of Chicago’s Dirksen Federal Courthouse.
If Biden's numbers continue to trend down, he'll leave with the lowest approval rating of every recent one-term president since Jimmy Carter.
President Joe Biden has commuted the death sentences of 37 federal inmates, sparking strong reactions from various groups.