Capital punishment could emerge as a major campaign issue in the U.S. presidential race for the first time in 30 years, with top GOP candidates already one-upping each other by touting tougher ...

President Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to work toward abolishing federal capital punishment. Skip to main content.

Biden’s decision to commute these death sentences completes an evolution on capital punishment during a decades-long political career. As a senator, Biden wrote crime legislation that expanded ...

Joe Biden campaigned on abolishing the death penalty, but has since allowed attorney general Merrick Garland’s Justice Department’s to continue pursuing it for Tsarnaev for the 2013 bombings.

Biden himself has not issued any formal directives or policy statements on federal capital punishment. During the 2016 campaign, he vowed both to end the federal death penalty for good, and to ...

Joe Biden has just pardoned 37 death row inmates, ... Donald Trump had already stated that he would extend the use of capital punishment to crimes such as the murder of US citizens by immigrants, ...

Prosecutors recently announced that they'd seek capital murder charges in the Buffalo mass shooting case, despite a moratorium on the federal death penalty that's held for nearly three years.

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 ...

Opponents of the death penalty have criticized Biden for failing to honor his campaign promises concerning capital punishment. So far, Biden has approached federal executions in the same way ...

Activists widely expected Joe Biden to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment, but the White House has been mostly silent.

Capital punishment could emerge as a major campaign issue in the U.S. presidential race for the first time in 30 years, with top GOP rivals Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis already one-upping each ...

President Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to work toward abolishing federal capital punishment Michael Tarm , Alanna Durkin Richer Wednesday 18 January 2023 00:54 GMT ...