Biden faces pressure to commute death sentences to life in prison before Trump's inauguration.

President Joe Biden is under pressure from a coalition of human-rights activists, former corrections officers, and families of crime victims to grant clemency to 40 federal inmates facing the death penalty. The group is urging Biden to commute their death sentences to life sentences without parole before he leaves office and before President-elect Donald Trump, who resumed federal executions, is inaugurated. Biden campaigned against the death penalty in 2020.

December 09, 2024
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