There were hints that it was coming, but in a stunning move early Monday morning, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. There has been a moratorium on carrying out federal executions since 2021, and Biden’s move is seen as an attempt to prevent the incoming Trump administration from carrying out the executions.
President Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly all the inmates on federal death row, a move that comes not even two weeks after he went through with the “largest single-day grant of clemency” in American history, the White House announced Monday.
Of the 40 inmates on federal death row, according to DeathPenaltyInfo.org, Biden is commuting 37 men sentenced to death, reclassifying their sentences to life without the possibility of parole.
