Biden commutes sentences of 37 on federal death row, three remain

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : The effort also got a high-profile boost from Pope Francis -- who changed the catechism of the Catholic Church in 2018 to declare the death penalty "inadmissible" -- when he devoted a section of a homily earlier this month to the subject, asking Catholics to pray that Biden, a Catholic, would commute the death sentences of those on death row.
46% : "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 said in his statement.
42% : I am begging you to finish the job, not only with the three men left on federal death row, but also with those on the military death row.
40% : "Praise God!"But some of the advocates including Shane Claiborne, a Christian activist who has spent years protesting the death penalty, noted that while the announcement allows 37 people facing capital punishment to instead serve life in prison, three men will remain on death row: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing; Robert Bowers, convicted in the 2018 Tree of Life Synagogue attack in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Dylann Roof, who killed 9 Black worshippers in 2015 at Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
36% : Views regarding the death penalty for the three men left on death row are not uniform.
25% : Biden declared his desire to abolish the federal death penalty while campaigning in 2019, and placed a moratorium on federal executions in 2021.
23% : But religious activists who oppose the death penalty say they will continue to pressure Biden to commute the sentences of those still on death row, arguing their cause is ultimately a matter of faith.
19% : President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of all but three people on federal death row, converting their sentences to life in prison.
17% : In a letter sent to Biden last week, Risher, who also serves as chair of Death Penalty Action, expressed concern Trump would restart federal executions upon taking office next month.

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