Joe Biden Spares 37 Death Row Inmates Before Donald Trump Resumes Executions. Here Are the 3 He Didn't Protect

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67% : "Boston-area Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley also praised Biden for his revolutionary actions after having held a press conference earlier this month to ask him to re-sentence those on federal death row.
63% : "He also pardoned 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes.
51% : "But 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.
47% : Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy, wrote in a statement, "I commend President Biden for this historic act and hope that governors and state executives follow the president's lead at a time when many of our courts are abandoning their role to ensure fairness and reliability in criminal cases.
47% : "The President's decision to commute the death sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row is a historic and groundbreaking act of compassion that will save lives, address the deep racial disparities in our criminal legal system, and send a powerful message about redemption, decency, and humanity."Never miss a story -- sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
40% : Those who remain on federal death row now are Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black people at a Charleston, S.C., church in 2015; Robert Bowers, who killed 11 Jewish people during an attack at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue in 2018; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who killed three people and injured 264 others when he detonated bombs at the Boston Marathon in 2013.Asked about his choice to exclude only three inmates, an administration official tells PEOPLE: "The remaining individuals were convicted for hate-motivated mass murder or acts of terrorism.
31% : "In 2020, Reuters reported, Biden campaigned on criminal justice reform and said he'd work "to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level, and incentivize states to follow."
26% : "When Biden took office in 2021, he temporarily suspended federal executions.
19% : Biden said that, while he condemns the "despicable" actions of those he took off death row, he hopes the government will "stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level" except in rare circumstancesPresident Joe Biden spared the lives of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row before passing the torch to President-elect Donald Trump, who notably executed five people in the final days of his first term.

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