The move is aimed at preventing the Trump administration from carrying out executions that would not take place under the moratorium Biden issued in 2021

Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row inmates in final month of presidency

By Fox News ——Bio and Archives--December 23, 2024

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President Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly all the inmates on federal death row, a move that comes not even two weeks after he went through with the "largest single-day grant of clemency" in American history, the White House announced Monday.

Of the 40 inmates on federal death row, according to DeathPenaltyInfo.org, Biden is commuting 37 men sentenced to death, reclassifying their sentences to life without the possibility of parole. ---More...

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