Joe Manchin assails Biden as ‘insulting’ for commuting death sentences
Retiring Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) condemned President Joe Biden for his decision to commute dozens of death sentences, including the men who pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing a West Virginia college student.
The Three Death Row Sentences Joe Biden Did Not Commute
Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier during the getaway attempt. Prosecutors said the brothers carried out the attack to punish the U.S. for wars in Muslim countries.
Biden commutes sentences of nearly all federal death row inmates
Activists have called for Biden to commute the sentence of many or all federal death row inmates for some time. More than 130 civil and human rights groups penned a letter to the president in early December calling on him to commute the sentences of "all individuals on federal death row."
Michigan mom decries Biden's death row commutation in daughter's 'heinous' 1997 murder
Two days before Christmas, Velda Robinson felt like she was robbed of long-awaited justice when she heard her daughter's killer was spared execution.
Trump vows to pursue executions after Biden commutes most of federal death row
President-elect Donald Trump says he'll “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions.
Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates to life in prison without possibility of parole
President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences​. Their sentences will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Joe Biden’s Long, Winding Road on the Death Penalty
Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, Except for a Few. The death penalty is not the hot-button political issue it was during the 1980s and ’90s,
Trump vows to use DOJ to enact death penalty after Biden sentence commutations
Donald Trump said the Justice Department will pursue the death penalty against prisoners after Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates.
Biden Commutes Nearly All Federal Death Penalty Sentences
Biden preserved the death sentences of three mass murderers but commuted the sentences of 37 other federal death row inmates to life in prison.
Biden death row commutations include six men convicted in Virginia
Of 37 federal prisoners whose punishments were reduced to life in prison, two committed murders in Northern Virginia and four killed people elsewhere in the state.
Biden takes unprecedented step on death penalty as he prepares to leave office
"I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level," President Joe Biden said in a statement released Monday.
'Squad' Dem applauds Biden for sparing murderers from 'racist' death penalty in 11th-hour clemency move
House Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley is among the left-wing lawmakers praising President Biden's decision to commute 37 ...
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Death penalty opponents make plea to Biden
Death Penalty Action submitted a letter to the White House signed by almost 450 organizations, asking President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of the three federal inmates facing execution ...
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'Horribly misguided': Outgoing senator blasts Biden as he heads out the door
President Joe Biden's decision to commute the death penalty sentences of 37 inmates was met with fierce backlash on Thursday ...
Manchin calls Biden's clemency for two killers 'horribly misguided and insulting'
W.Va., characterized President Biden's commutations of the sentences of two prisoners who had been on federal death row as ...