Joe Biden's Moral Wisdom

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The president has commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole, a historic move.
47% : "Death-penalty abolitionists will have to hope that by the time the next set of cases makes it to death row and through the appeals process, that there's a new Congress and a differently constituted Supreme Court that will take a serious look at the constitutionality and desirability of the death penalty."
46% : Not every person on federal death row received a commutation.
43% : The decision sparked relief and gratitude not only for the men of federal death row, but also for members of the public who had urged Biden to commute.
30% : This morning, the White House announced that President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole.
27% : Despite Attorney General Merrick Garland imposing a moratorium on federal executions in 2021, lawyers representing the Department of Justice still defended these death sentences in court; in that respect, it was not surprising that Biden would leave them off of his commutation list.

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