Biden commutes vast majority of federal death sentences
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I was hoping this was good advice he was just going to take:
President Joe Biden on Monday announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office.
The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals, as well as the killings of guards or prisoners in federal facilities.
It means just three federal inmates continue to face execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of life Synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history.
Preventing Trump from starting up his arbitrary execution machine again is an important and just thing to do. And while some might object to the three exceptions in the light of the negative reaction to his commutation of the juvenile bribery judge this was inevitable. I personally am not going to complain about the most important anti-death penalty action ever taken by an American president.