What does it mean to commute an execution? Here's what to know after Biden's death row move
President Joe Biden announced he would commute the sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row. Here's what that means.
President Biden commutes sentences of 37 on death row. What it means.
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 people on death row, which means those individuals will have their sentences changed from execution to life without parole, the White House said in a press release on Monday.
In commuting death sentences, Biden is a strong counter to Trump
Recent polling shows support for the death penalty at a five-decade low, and half of the population thinks the death penalty is applied unfairly.
Trump blasts Biden's federal death row commutations: "Makes no sense"
Dorthy Moxley, whose family name became linked with the Kennedys as the 1975 murder of her teenage daughter, Martha, became a decadeslong media sensation, died Tuesday after she was hospitalized last week with the flu,
Trump denounces decision to commute death sentences
President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to "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 gets support for commuting federal death row sentences for 37 of 40 prisoners
NPR's Asma Khalid talks with Abraham Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action about President Biden's decision to commute the death penalty sentences of all but three people on federal death row.
Trump slams Biden over death penalty commutations
President-elect Donald Trump reacted to President Joe Biden commuting the sentences for all but three people on death row.
Indiana carries out first execution in 15 years, putting inmate with paranoid schizophrenia to death for quadruple murder
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Valentina Gomez's mock execution of immigrant an ugly reflection of values
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Among the three federal inmates still facing execution is 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Among the three federal inmates remaining on federal death row is 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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