Biden commutes most federal death sentences

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : His measure does not include more than 2,000 people convicted to death by State authorities.
43% : The three remaining on death row include Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who helped carry out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof who shot and killed nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015.
42% : Robert Bowers, who killed 11 Jewish worshippers during a mass shooting in 2018 at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, will also remain on death row.
30% : There had been no federal inmates put to death in the US since 2003 until Trump resumed federal executions in July 2020.
29% : Biden's decision comes before the return of President-elect Donald Trump in January, who resumed federal executions when he was in office.
28% : During his first term in office, Trump oversaw 13 deaths by lethal injection during his final six months in power.
27% : During his re-election campaign, Trump indicated he would expand the use of capital punishment to include human and drug traffickers, as well as migrants who kill American citizens.

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