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 forward their executions.
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.
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.
President Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates so Donald Trump can't have them executed
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment,
'A mistake': Biden faces backlash upon commuting sentences of death row inmates
President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of 37 death row inmates ignited a fierce debate about the morality of executions.
The Three Death Row Sentences Joe Biden Did Not Commute
President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row. Dylann Roof, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers will be the three left on the federal execution list when President-elect Donald Trump,
Biden commutes death penalty sentence against Michigan murderer
Marvin Gabrion was convicted and sentenced to die more than two decades ago for killing a woman who had accused him of rape.
Trump has Christmas Eve meltdown over Biden’s commutation of nearly every federal death row prisoner’s sentence
Less than a month before Trump takes office, Biden removed 37 people from death row who were all convicted of murder charges
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.
Pressley praises Biden’s death row commutations, urges more action
Boston Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley praised President Joe Biden’s move to take killers off death row but added he hasn’t gone far enough. In a statement that has gone viral, Pressley said Biden has made a “groundbreaking act” that was long overdue.
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.
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Biden takes unprecedented step on death penalty as he prepares to leave office
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Trump says he will direct Justice Department to ‘vigorously pursue the death penalty’
President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct the Department of Justice to “vigorously pursue the death penalty ...