Calls mount for Biden to spare federal death row inmates before Trump retakes office

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Biden's commutation power is one of the most concrete tools at his for safeguarding his values before he hands over to Trump.
46% : Trump has signaled he will authorize an execution spree of all inmates sentenced to death by the US government as one of his first acts after his inauguration on 20 January.
38% : "You have to believe it when Trump says he's going to execute all 40 people," said Kelley Henry, a federal public defender.
18% : Trump has also called for the ultimate punishment to be extended to drug dealers and human traffickers.
17% : Advocates implore Biden to 'commute the row' of prisoners sentenced to death before Trump restarts executionsCalls are mounting for Joe Biden to use his presidential clemency powers before he leaves office to spare the lives of 40 federal death row inmates who are at peril of imminent execution when Donald Trump returns to the White House.
13% : "We are begging President Biden to save these lives, so that Trump will not have an opportunity for another killing spree - because that's what it will be," the Rev Sharon Risher said.

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