Biden didn't commute the sentences of death row inmates Dylann Roof, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers. Here's why.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : On Monday, Biden explained that "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.
37% : But now there are just three people remaining on federal death row.
34% : While that number was the largest of any administration in modern history, Trump has since campaigned on a promise to expand the death penalty to drug dealers.
28% : "These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder," Biden said in a statement.
28% : During Trump's first term in office, his administration ended a 17-year pause on federal executions, eventually putting 13 federal prisoners to death.
25% : Given the time it takes to try and convict capital cases, and the fact that the average appeals process takes 966 days, Trump may not be able to execute more federal prisoners in his second term than he did in his first.

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