President Biden commutes death sentence of notorious drug kingpin Kaboni Savage

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : ""President Biden has reaffirmed the power of redemption over retribution and reminds us that state-sanctioned killing does not make us safer," the ACLU said in a statement.
40% : Kaboni Savage was the only Philadelphian on federal death row.
40% : Savage was the only Philadelphian on federal death row.
38% : Notorious North Philadelphia drug kingpin Kaboni Savage, who was on federal death row for 12 murders -- including a 2004 firebombing that targeted a witness and killed four children and two adults -- had his sentence commuted Monday to life in prison.
25% : But Biden actually had promised to go further on the issue in the past, pledging to end federal executions without the caveats for terrorism and hate-motivated, mass killings.
18% : The final three occurred after Election Day in November 2020 but before Trump left office the following January, the first time federal prisoners were put to death by a lame-duck president since Grover Cleveland in 1889.
10% : Biden faced recent pressure from advocacy groups urging him to act to make it more difficult for Trump to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmates.

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