Joe Biden commutes sentences of 37 death row inmates

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

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.
41% : The legislation is now widely seen as having contributed to mass incarceration, particularly affecting Black men, and many of those currently on death row were sentenced under its provisions.
39% : "The majority of the 40 men held on federal death row are people of colour, and 38 per cent are Black, Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, previously told the Guardian.
36% : Madeline Cohen, a lawyer for Holder, told the Washington Post on Saturday: "Many of the men on federal death row were prosecuted during a superheated political era and an overzealous tough-on-crime approach that proved to be deeply flawed.
27% : The decision follows month of pressure from campaigners who warned that president-elect Donald Trump backs the death penalty and restarted federal executions during his first term after a pause of nearly two decades.
24% : The Biden administration duly imposed a moratorium on federal executions.

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