Martin Luther King Jr.'s son calls on Biden to make historic move

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : He said these people would have received shorter sentences if charged under today's laws, policies, and practices.Biden also granted pardons to more than two dozen people convicted of nonviolent drug possession or distribution charges.'As President, I have the great privilege of extending mercy to people who have demonstrated remorse and rehabilitation, restoring opportunity for Americans to participate in daily life and contribute to their communities, and taking steps to remove sentencing disparities for non-violent offenders, especially those convicted of drug offenses,' Biden said.
45% : He went on to note that a majority of the convicts who were executed in Trump's first administration were 'people of color' and 'at least one was convicted by an all-white jury and there was evidence of racial bias in a number of cases.'Several convicts also presented evidence of intellectual disabilities or severe mental illnesses, King wrote, noting: 'The same problems were features in the cases of many of the 40 men on federal death row today, more than half of whom are people of color.
17% : 'If Mr. Biden does not exercise his constitutional authority to commute the sentences of everyone on federal death row, we will surely see another spate of deeply troubling executions as we did in the first Trump administration,' King wrote.

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