Biden's Death Penalty Commutations Include 2 Convicted in California Ransom Hostage Killing Spree

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "As a Lithuanian citizen, Mr Kadamovas was the only European Union/NATO member state citizen on federal death row, and the Lithuanian authorities supported the commutation request.
41% : "Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole.
38% : These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.
38% : "The three people who remain on death row include Dylann Roof, who killed nine black people at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who killed three in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants the Tree of life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018.
34% : President Joe Biden on Monday made the unprecedented decision to commute the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row, including two Soviet-born immigrants convicted in brutal ransom spree murders in California.
28% : "Trump added his administrator would vigorously pursue the death penalty.

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