Sentenced to death under a Biden law -- and now hoping for Biden's mercy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : The bill had the support of President Bill Clinton, eager to move the Democratic Party's image to the center.
47% : "If you look at federal death penalty now under Biden, you can see there has been a real change in understanding where it should be used.
44% : "The president has an opportunity to correct some of the systemic problems that these cases represent, including over-federalization and over-sentencing that we know are problems of past eras of policy," Cohen added.
43% : "By 2000, public support for capital punishment showed signs of softening as advances in DNA forensics helped overturn several death row convictions.
42% : "This is just not someone you would imagine on death row," said Kelley J. Henry, Taylor's attorney.
41% : Thirty years later, Biden, now a president in the twilight of his career, faces a weighty decision: whether to grant clemency to Holder and 39 other inmates on federal death row, many facing execution under the provisions of a law he wrote at a time when America, the Democratic Party and Biden himself were in a very different place.
40% : "The death penalty has not been eliminated through legislation, but in 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a moratorium on carrying out federal executions.
40% : "As President, only you hold the unilateral power to ensure that individuals currently on federal death row are not executed by commuting their death sentences to life imprisonment," the letter said.
37% : "A change of heartWhen Biden ran for president in 2020, he distanced himself from many of his past positions as he sought support from a Democratic Party animated by criminal justice reform, which was heightened further in the wake of George Floyd's murder at the hands of police in May 2020.
34% : "Many of the men on federal death row were prosecuted during a superheated political era and an overzealous tough-on-crime approach that proved to be deeply flawed," Maher said.
32% : "Even if Biden takes sweeping action, its effect would be limited, since the great majority of death sentences are handled by the states and would not be affected.
29% : "And not someone President Biden would have envisioned on death row, either."
23% : Biden's decision on the fates of the federal death row prisoners is especially stark because Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, is a proponent of the death penalty who would be unlikely to spare them.
19% : Letters to Biden that were made public this month invoked the president's Catholic faith and public opposition to capital punishment.

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