Three death row inmates so terrible even Joe Biden wouldn't pardon them

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The 46-year-old, who had posted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories online, killed 11 before he was subdued by armed police.
51% : "But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice president, and now president, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level."
44% : "Trump, who takes office on January 20, has spoken frequently of expanding executions.
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.
39% : A jury decided the 21-year-old should be killed via lethal injection rather than face life in prison.
38% : These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.
36% : Today, the US president explained he would commute the sentences of 37 of 40 people currently on federal death row, downgrading their punishment to life imprisonment.
36% : Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, will still face lethal injection.
36% : He took a political jab at Trump, saying, "In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.
29% : In a speech announcing his 2024 campaign, Trump called for those "caught selling drugs to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts."
25% : 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.
21% : Three inmates are still on death row because their crimes were so heinous that Joe Biden refused to lessen their sentences.
18% : The final three occurred after Election Day in November 2020 but before Trump left office the following January, the first time federal prisoners were put to death by a lame-duck president since Grover Cleveland in 1889.

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