Joe Biden not commuting Dylann Roof's death sentence sparks backlash

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "Biden's decision comes just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, who oversaw an unprecedented number of federal executions in the final six months of his first term, returns to office on January 20The president had been facing pressure from advocacy groups, lawmakers and religious leaders including Pope Francis to commute the sentences of those on federal death row before leaving office.
50% : Biden had pledged to end the federal death penalty while running for president in 2020, but death penalty opponents were disappointed when he did not take meaningful actions to do so after taking office.
44% : "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.
44% : "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% : The three men left on federal death row have filed appeals and legal challenges to their death sentences, which have to be resolved before an execution date can be set.
39% : "I need the President to understand that when you put a killer on death row, you also put their victim's families in limbo with the false promise that we must wait until there is an execution before we can begin to heal.
33% : President Joe Biden's decision to leave mass murderer Dylann Roof on federal death row while commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 men has sparked a backlash from death penalty opponents, including the daughter of one of Roof's victims.
30% : In a statement on Monday, Biden said the commutations are "consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.
30% : "We urge President Biden to go further and commute all existing death sentences," O'Brien said.Martin Luther King III, human rights activist and son of Martin Luther King Jr., who had urged Biden to commute the sentences of those on federal death row, said in a statement provided to Newsweek that Biden "has done what no President before him was willing to do: take meaningful and lasting action not just to acknowledge the death penalty's racist roots but also to remedy its persistent unfairness."Donnie Oliverio, a retired Ohio police officer whose partner was killed by one of the men whose death sentence was commuted, said in a statement provided to Newsweek that "putting to death the person who killed my police partner and best friend would have brought me no peace.
28% : "Abraham Bonowitz, the executive director of Death Penalty Action, said in a statement to Newsweek: "Every person left on the federal and military death rows is being handed over to Donald Trump for execution.
27% : Do not give Trump the power to execute anyone.
25% : The danger of leaving the death penalty as an available tool for Donald Trump to use cannot be overstated.
24% : Donald Trump idolizes dictators and relishes dictator-like power.

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