Biden Commutes 37 Death Sentences Ahead of Trump's Plan to Resume Federal Executions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : The White House released statements of support from faith leaders, civil rights groups and law enforcement officials, as well as from friends and family members of those killed by men on death row.
48% : During his first term, Mr. Trump restarted federal executions after a nearly 20-year pause; all 13 were carried out in the final six months of his administration.
44% : President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of nearly all prisoners on federal death row, sparing the lives of 37 men just a month before Donald J. Trump will return to the Oval Office with a promise to restart federal executions.
43% : The three men who can still face federal execution are Robert D. Bowers, 52, who in 2018 gunned down 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh; Dylann Roof, 30, the white supremacist who in 2015 opened fire on Black parishioners at a church in Charleston, S.C., killing nine people; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 31, one of the two brothers who carried out the bombing of the Boston Marathon in 2013 that killed three and maimed more than a dozen others.
43% : A number of groups had called on the president to commute the sentences of the men on death row, including members of his party and several civil rights organizations.
43% : In an article about the call, the Vatican's news agency reported that the pope had "concern for those on death row."
42% : But as president, he directed the Justice Department to issue a moratorium on federal executions.
36% : Thirteen prisoners on federal death row were put to death during Mr. Trump's first term.
35% : Only three men, who each carried out notorious mass killings, will remain on federal death row.
35% : Nine are on death row because they were convicted of killing fellow federal prisoners.
33% : Although proposed legislation to that effect failed to advance in Congress during his administration, Mr. Biden directed the Justice Department to issue a moratorium on federal executions.

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