Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : A total of 13 people were executed between then and the end of his term -- a record number of federal executions for a single president.
46% : Trump had reinstated federal executions during his first term, in July 2019, after a 17-year pause.
45% : Biden's commutations for those on death row are also much higher than those of his Democratic predecessors.
43% : In a statement, the president said the commutations are in line with the 2021 moratorium his administration imposed on federal executions.
31% : Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide captionPresident Biden used his clemency authority Monday to commute the sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row to life without parole, in one of the most significant moves taken against capital punishment in recent presidential history.
17% : After President-elect Donald Trump won the election last month, advocates started re-emphasizing the issue because of Trump's record on federal executions.

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