Catholic Group Applauds Biden's Commutation of 37 Death Sentences: 'A Turning Point' - The Tablet

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : The three men who still face federal execution are Robert D. Bowers, Dylann Roof, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.Bowers, 52, gunned down 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018.
38% : Over his first term, 13 prisoners on federal death row were put to death.
37% : However, Biden directed the Justice Department to issue a moratorium on federal executions, which has been in effect for his entire presidency.
34% : The decision leaves just three individuals, who each carried out mass killings, on federal death row.
32% : President Joe Biden has commuted the death sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row, a move that almost fulfills a longstanding request of the American bishops.
31% : "The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops had recently issued an action alert asking the faithful to contact Biden and urge him to commute all federal death sentences to terms of imprisonment for all of the 40 individuals on federal death row.
18% : Biden's decision to commute the sentences of the 37 individuals prevents President-elect Donald Trump from carrying out the executions, which Trump has vowed to restart in his second term.

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