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 capital punishment had urged the president to commute death row sentences before Donald Trump — who promised to restart federal executions — takes office.

Opponents of the death penalty have criticized Biden for failing to honor his campaign promises concerning capital punishment.

In the latest in a series of shameful closing acts, President Joe Biden on Sunday night commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 murderers on federal death row. Biden’s midnight decision spared the ...

President Joe Biden today moved the needle toward justice, commuting the federal death sentences of 37 men, taking a vital step toward addressing the cruelty, arbitrariness and bias embedded in ...

Biden faces mounting pressure to clear death row – a task made more urgent by his successor to the Oval Office, President-elect Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden can — and must — act now to finish the death penalty reform work his administration began in 2020. He must commute the sentences of all people on federal death row to stymie ...

On Tuesday, the US president-elect pledged that, upon his return to the White House, he would actively pursue the federal death penalty for all serious crimes. Joe Biden has just pardoned 37 death ...

Joe Biden ran for president opposing the death penalty. He faces calls to commute federal death sentences before President-elect Donald Trump assumes office.

Joe Biden says he’s changed his mind on the death penalty. Why isn’t he doing more to stop it? “He assured me that on his watch, there would be no federal executions,” Congresswoman Ayanna ...