With just weeks left in office, US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates - potentially thwarting President-elect Donald Trump's plans to expand federal executions during his upcoming administration.

Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, Except for a Few. The death penalty is not the hot-button political issue it was during the 1980s and ’90s,

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers, who killed 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of life Synagogue, were among those whose death penalties were not commuted.

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,

President Joe Biden will leave office with more lifetime judicial confirmations than his predecessor and a legacy of diversifying the federal bench, a win for Democrats in the final days of the 118th Congress.