Biden Pardons Marcus Garvey, 4 Others in Final Full Day of Presidency

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : "I am deeply humbled to share that I have received a Presidential Pardon from President Joe Biden for a mistake I made in 1994 -- one that changed the course of my life and taught me the true power of redemption," Scott said in a statement.
30% : Trump is a proponent of expanding capital punishment and presided over 13 executions during his first term in office.
29% : Biden also said he would commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 people currently on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment, days ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
28% : President Joe Biden, on Jan. 19, posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey, a black nationalist who was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s and was famous for influencing Malcolm X.The president also pardoned criminal justice reform advocate Kemba Smith Pradia, immigrant rights activist Ravi Ragbir, Democratic speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Don Scott, and
25% : Smith Pradia was sentenced to 24 years behind bars following a 1994 drug offense conviction, but President Bill Clinton commuted her sentence six years later.

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