Like Time for President Biden when it comes to an end, he is reportedly considering commuting the sentences of most, if not all, of the 40 men on the federal government's death row.
The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, report that move it would frustrate President Trump's plan to ease the killings when he takes office in January.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, who oversees federal prisons, has urged Biden to pass all the bad sentences, the sources said.
The agency reported that possible exceptions could include Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 2013 Boston Marathon bomber who killed three and injured more than 250; Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people in the 2018 attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh; and Dylann Roof, who in 2015 killed nine at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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President Biden talks about his economic playbook and the future of the American economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington Dec. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Those who had their death sentences commuted to life in prison include a former Navy SEAL who killed two young girls and later a Navy SEAL, a Las Vegas man found guilty of and convicted of abducting and killing a 12-year-old girl, a Chicago podiatrist fatally shot a patient to prevent him from testifying in a Medicare fraud investigation and two men were found guilty in a kidnapping plot for a ransom that resulted in the killing of five Russians. and Georgian immigrants.
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The move came after Biden, a lifelong Catholic, interviewed her Pope Francis Thursday. In his weekly prayer, Pope Francis has called for the reform of America's condemned prisoners.
A decision from the president could come by Christmas, some sources said. Gem noted that the big question is the extent of the change in death row inmates.
President Biden speaks on stage (AP)
Biden is the first president to openly oppose the death penalty, and his 2020 campaign website announced that he would “work to pass legislation to end the death penalty at the federal level and encourage states to follow the federal government's example.” corporation.”
In January 2021, Biden initially took the executive order, sources familiar with the matter told The Associated Press, but the White House did not provide it.
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Six months into government, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the suspension of the federal government's sanction to study further. The narrow action means no federal killings under Biden.