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How President Biden’s mandate 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, reported that the movement would thwart President-elect Trump’s plan to expedite executions when he takes office in January.
Attorney General Merrick Garland, who oversees federal prisons, recommended that Biden commute all but a handful of sentences, the sources said.
The outlet 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 speaks about his administration’s economic playbook and the future of the US economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington on December 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Among those who could see their death sentences commuted to life in prison are an ex-Marine who killed two young girls and later a female naval officer, a Las Vegas man convicted of kidnapping and killing a 12-year-old girl , a Chicago podiatrist who fatally shot a patient to prevent him from testifying in a Medicare fraud investigation and two men were convicted in a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme that resulted in the murders of five immigrants Russians and Georgians.
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The move came after Biden, a lifelong Catholic, spoke with Pope Francis Thursday In his weekly prayer, Pope Francis called for the commutation of condemned prisoners in the United States.
A decision by the president could come by Christmas, according to some sources. The outlet noted that the biggest question is the extent of commutation of death row inmates.
President Biden speaks at a podium (AP)
Biden is the first president to openly oppose the death penalty, and his 2020 campaign website stated that he would “work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level and encourage states to follow suit.” ‘example of the federal government’.
In January 2021, Biden initially considered an executive order, sources familiar with the matter told The Associated Press, but the White House did not issue one.
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Six months after administration, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a moratorium on federal capital punishment for further study. Limited action has meant there have been no federal executions under Biden.
