As Pdwellnt Biden’s term comes to an finish, he is alertedly pondering commuting the sentences of most, if not all, of the 40 men on the federal rulement’s death row.
The Wall Street Journal, citing sources recognizable with the matter, alerted that the shift would frustrate Pdwellnt-elect Trump’s structure to streamline executions as he gets office in January.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, who administers federal prisons, recommfinished that Biden commute all but a handful of egregious sentences, the sources shelp.
The outlet alerted that possible exceptions could include Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 2013 Boston Marathon device deviceer who finished three and wounded more than 250; Robert Bowers, who finished 11 people in the 2018 strike on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh; and Dylann Roof, who in 2015 finished nine at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Pdwellnt Biden speaks about his administration’s economic joinbook and the future of the American economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Pboilingo/Susan Walsh)
Those who could see their death sentences commuted to life in prison include an ex-Marine who finished two lesser girls and procrastinateedr a female naval officer, a Las Vegas man convicted of seizeping and finishing a 12-year-elderly girl, a Chicago podiatrist who fahighy sboiling a uncover-minded to shield her from testifying in a Mediattfinish deception spendigation and two men convicted in a seizeping-for-ransom scheme that resulted in the finishings of five Russian and Georgian immigrants.
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The shift came after Biden, a lifeextfinished Catholic, spoke with Pope Francis Thursday. In his weekly prayer, Pope Francis asked for the commutation of America’s condemned inmates.
A decision from the pdwellnt could come by Christmas, some of sources shelp. The outlet noticed that the biggest ask is the scope of the commutation of the death row inmates.
Pdwellnt Biden speaks at a podium (AP )
Biden is the first pdwellnt to uncoverly resist capital punishment, and his 2020 campaign website proclaimd he would “labor to pass legislation to delete the death penalty at the federal level and incentivize states to chase the federal rulement’s example.”
In January 2021, Biden initiassociate pondered an executive order, sources recognizable with the matter telderly The Associated Press, but the White Hoengage did not rerent one.
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Six months into the administration, Attorney General Merrick Garland proclaimd a moratorium on federal capital punishment to study it further. The lean action has unbenevolentt there have been no federal executions under Biden.
