Joe Biden SPARES the lives of 37 US federal death row inmates

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58% : He oversaw 13 by lethal injection during his final six months in power, more than any US leader in 120 years.
51% : '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,' he added.
44% : During his first term as president, Trump also advocated for the death penalty for drug dealers.
41% : 'Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole.
41% : 'These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.'
40% : Speculation that Biden could commute federal death sentences intensified last week after the White House announced he plans to visit Italy on the final foreign trip of his presidency next month.
38% : The three inmates who will remain on death row include Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who helped carry out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and Dylann Roof, an avowed white supremacist who in 2015 shot and killed nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.
38% : Robert Bowers, who killed 11 Jewish worshippers during a 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh - the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history - will also remain on death row.
37% : Martin Luther King III, who publicly urged Biden to change the death sentences, said in a statement issued by the White House that the president 'has done what no president before him was willing to do: take meaningful and lasting action not just to acknowledge the death penalty´s racist roots but also to remedy its persistent unfairness.'Donnie Oliverio, a retired Ohio police officer whose partner was killed by one of the men whose death sentence was converted, said the execution of 'the person who killed my police partner and best friend would have brought me no peace.''The president has done what is right here,' Oliverio said in a statement also issued by the White House, 'and what is consistent with the faith he
35% : While running for president in 2020, Biden's campaign website said he would 'work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level, and incentivize states to follow the federal government's example.'President Joe Biden, (pictured last week) with just 28 days left in office, has spared the lives of 37 federal death row inmates, leaving just three high-profile killers to be executedThe three inmates who will remain on death row include Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, (left) who helped carry out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and Robert Bowers, (right) who killed 11 Jewish worshippers during a 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh'I've dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system,' Biden said in a statement Monday.
32% : There had been no federal inmates put to death in the United States since 2003 until Trump resumed federal executions in July 2020.
31% : He oversaw 13 by lethal injection during his final six months in power, more than any US leader in 120 years (stock photo)There had been no federal inmates put to death in the United States since 2003 until Trump resumed federal executions in July 2020.
30% : In a speech announcing his 2024 campaign, Trump called for those 'caught selling drugs to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts.'He later promised to execute drug and human smugglers and even praised China's harsher treatment of drug peddlers.
24% : But Biden, 82, 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.
22% : The last federal execution - which was carried out by lethal injection at a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana - took place on January 16, 2021, four days before Trump left office.
10% : Biden also took a political jab at President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, saying, 'In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.'Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has spoken frequently of expanding executions.
5% : Dylann Roof, (pictured) an avowed white supremacist who in 2015 shot and killed nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, also remains on death rowBiden faced recent pressure from advocacy groups urging him to act to make it more difficult for President-elect Donald Trump (pictured Sunday) to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmatesBiden faced recent pressure from advocacy groups urging him to act to make it more difficult for Trump to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmates.

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