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 ...

President Joe Biden today moved the needle toward ... arbitrariness and bias embedded in the capital punishment system. In one day, Biden commuted more death sentences than any president ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

President Joe Biden ran his 2020 presidential campaign on a platform that included ending the death penalty for federal inmates. “Over 160 individuals who've been sentenced to death in this ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — President Joe Biden has commuted the death penalty sentences for all but three federal death row inmates. 37 of the 40 people held on federal death row will now serve life ...

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 ...

Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect ...