President Joe Biden: Before the end of his term, US President Joe Biden on Monday (December 23) pardoned the death sentence of 37 out of 40 criminals and commuted them to life imprisonment. At the same time, the death sentence of only 3 criminals has been upheld. Joe Biden has given this order before the return of newly elected President Donald Trump.
There is less than a month left for Donald Trump to assume the presidency. Let us tell you that during his first term, Trump had pardoned the death sentence of very few people.
37 criminals got life, sentence of 3 remained intact
After this decision of Biden, 37 out of 40 criminals awarded death sentence got a new life in the form of life imprisonment. At the same time, only three high-profile murderers are facing the federal death penalty. Those who have been sentenced to death due to hatred or terrorism. Biden said in a statement, “I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row to life without parole.”
These criminals were not punished and forgiven
Three criminals remain on federal death row, including Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who helped carry out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. At the same time, Dylann Roof is a white supremacist, who in 2015 shot and killed 9 black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina. Apart from this, the death sentence of Robert Bowers, who killed 11 Jewish worshipers during the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, also remained intact.
What did Biden say after the decision,
People whose punishment has been reduced after Joe Biden’s decision. They include 9 people convicted for the murder of fellow prisoners, 4 for murder committed during a bank robbery and one convicted for killing a prison guard. “Make no mistake, I condemn these murderers, mourn the victims of their despicable acts, and grieve for all the families who endured the unimaginable,” President Joe Biden said after ordering the commutation of the criminals’ sentences. And has suffered irreparable loss. “But driven by my conscience and my experience, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.”
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