The Monday edition of the PBS News Hour gave an early Christmas gift to the outgoing Biden administration by openly embracing Biden’s controversial commutation of the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners to life in prison, responsible in whole or part of over 50 murders, by NewsBusters count.
Such a controversy would merit at least a debate between opposing views on a tax-funded newscast with a congressional mandate to provide balanced coverage. But substitute anchor William Brangham’s only guest for the commutation segment was an anti-death penalty activist. There was not even a mention of the crimes committed by recipients of Biden’s ninth-inning clemency, much less any deep dive.
Anchor William Brangham: In one of the most significant moves against capital punishment, President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of 37 of the 40 prisoners on…
