Meet the Death Row Prisoners Who Will Escape Capital Punishment Thanks to Biden
Biden offered mercy to 37 of the 40 murderers on death row — some of whom abducted and sexually assaulted their victims before killing them.
Trump vows to pursue executions after Biden commutes most of federal death row
President-elect Donald Trump says he'll “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing fo
Readers disagree with Biden’s decision to commute 37 death row sentences. Here’s why.
If [Biden] disapproved of the applicable federal law, he should have tried to change it democratically – not swept it aside,” one respondent said.
Trump criticises Biden's death row decisions - saying he backs capital punishment for 'rapists, murderers, and monsters'
Mr Trump was responding to President Joe Biden's decision to reduce the sentences of almost all federal inmates on death row to life imprisonment - whom Mr Trump called "37 of the worst killers in our country".
Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump can resume executions
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.
Joe Biden Not Commuting Dylann Roof's Death Sentence Sparks Backlash
The president commuted the death sentences of almost all of the men on federal death row, but left out three of the most well-known, including Roof.
Biden Commutes Sentences of 37 Death Row Inmates
The move prevents President-elect Donald Trump from executing most men on federal death row.
Biden commutes sentences of nearly all federal death row inmates
Activists have called for Biden to commute the sentence of many or all federal death row inmates for some time. More than 130 civil and human rights groups penned a letter to the president in early December calling on him to commute the sentences of "all individuals on federal death row."
Biden death row commutations include six men convicted in Virginia
Of 37 federal prisoners whose punishments were reduced to life in prison, two committed murders in Northern Virginia and four killed people elsewhere in the state.
Two Palm Beach County men among 37 federal death row inmates commuted by Biden on Monday
President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of Daniel Troya and Ricardo Sanchez, convicted in the 2006 murders of two boys and their parents.
Biden’s death row orders grant justice where Supreme Court has grown hostile to claims of racial bias
The Supreme Court’s recent treatment of capital cases is rife with disregard for systemic racial discrimination.
Trump Plans to Seek Death Penalty 'Vigorously' in Federal Cases
President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to order the Justice Department to expand its pursuit of capital punishment for ...
Michigan was 1st state to outlaw death penalty
President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of Michigan's only prisoner on death row federally. The state has long outlawed the ...
Trump slams Biden commutations
Trump's first term, and the president-elect has said he plans to expand the use of the punishment in his second.
‘Squad’ Rep. Ayanna Pressley praises Biden for controversial commutations: ‘Death penalty is racist’
Pressley, 50, described the 82-year-old commander in chief’s decision to spare dozens of convicted murderers and rapists from ...
Capital Punishment: Ben Stiller’s forgotten 1980s avant-garde punk band
Long before Ben Stiller was making a name for himself in Hollywood, he was creating potentially groundbreaking music.
Biden Just Made a Huge Defensive Move Against Trump. It’s What He Didn’t Do That’s Telling.
President-elect Trump took issue with fees charged to use the Panama Canal, a vital shipping route, on Saturday night, ...
Joe Biden's justifiable mercy
Indeed, the essential legacy of Anglo-American clemency power is mercy — the executive (royal) prerogative to sand down the ...