Biden commutes dozens of death row sentences to life without parole

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : "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," Biden added in his statement.
44% : She said the rapid pace of federal executions at the end of the Trump administration was "brutal.""It was like the legal system was suspended, is the best way I can put it," she said in an interview last month.
42% : Around 2,200 people are on death row across the country.
41% : "The three men who remain on federal death row are Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people in the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh in 2018; Dylann Roof, who killed nine people in a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombers in 2013.
39% : Beyond federal death sentences, about half of states allow the death penalty.
37% : "We're going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts," Trump said when he launched his 2024 campaign.
37% : Kelley Henry is a federal defender for Rejon Taylor, one of the inmates being taken off of death row by Biden's action.
37% : "Trump would need congressional support to expand the types of crimes for which prosecutors could seek the death penalty, and any changes would be likely to face legal challenges.
36% : "In 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a moratorium on federal executions.
35% : "Allen said he felt his hope was "cut off" when Donald Trump won the presidential election last month.
32% : Trump said on the campaign trail that he would push for the Justice Department to seek the death penalty for 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.
27% : "President Trump meant what he said on the campaign trail: he will enforce the death penalty for drug dealers who knowingly sell deadly poison to their fellow Americans, and illegal immigrant criminals who kill innocent American citizens," she said in a statement.
25% : President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 inmates, leaving only three people on death row in federal prisons.
17% : NBC News has reported that Biden is considering issuing pre-emptive pardons for people who he thinks Trump might legally target during his second administration.

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