The Washington Post29d
Biden’s commutations paradoxically prove the pro-death-penalty case
The step taken at the urging of capital punishment opponents, President Joe Biden’s commutation — to life imprisonment — of 37 out of the 40 pending federal death sentences, paradoxically ...
Biden Commutes Sentences Of 37 Death Row Inmates Says ‘We Must Stop’ Using Death Penalty At Federal Level
President Joe Biden said, “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I ...
Slate28d
Biden Fails a Death Penalty Abolitionist’s Most Important Test
The mystery of Joe Biden’s views about capital punishment has finally been solved. His decision to grant clemency to 37 of the 40 people on federal death row shows the depth of his opposition to ...
City Journal28d
Biden’s Death-Penalty Commutations Are a Moral Outrage
In the latest in a series of shameful closing acts, President Joe Biden on Sunday night commuted the sentences ... were on death row for killing other people in prison. If capital punishment is not an ...
Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates to life in prison without possibility of parole
President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences​. Their sentences will be ...
U.S. News & World Report28d
The Death Penalty Is Inhumane. States Should Follow Biden’s Example of Mercy.
President Joe Biden today moved the needle toward justice ... arbitrariness and bias embedded in the capital punishment system. In one day, Biden commuted more death sentences than any president ...
The Online Citizen1d
Who does the death penalty really threaten? Shanmugam’s rhetoric versus reality
Law Minister K Shanmugam criticised US President Joe Biden’s clemency decisions for inconsistencies. However, the case of ...
Hosted on MSN28d
What to know about Biden’s death row commutations, and what happens next
President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting ... Biden’s move comes in his final weeks in office after opponents of capital punishment urged him to commute death row sentences ...
HuffPost27d
Trump Vows To Pursue Executions After Biden Commutes Most Of Federal Death Row
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death ...
The Independent28d
Joe Biden commutes sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump takes office
Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of ... to act to make it more difficult for Trump to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmates. Bianca Jagger, a Council of Europe ...
Trump signs death penalty order directing attorney general to help states get lethal injection drugs
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping execution order Monday on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to ...
KARE 1129d
Almost all federal death row inmates have their sentences commuted to life in prison
WASHINGTON D.C., DC — President Joe Biden has commuted the death penalty ... in 2021 announced a moratorium on federal capital punishment to study the protocols used, which suspended executions ...