Calls mount for Biden to spare federal death row inmates before Trump retakes office
Advocates implore Biden to ‘commute the row’ of prisoners sentenced to death before Trump restarts executions
Calls are mounting for Joe Biden to use his presidential clemency powers before he leaves office to spare the lives of 40 federal death row inmates who are at peril of imminent execution when Donald Trump returns to the White House.
Lawyers for many of the condemned men are appealing to the president through official clemency channels, urging him to commute their death sentences to life behind bars. Major advocacy groups and individuals affected by capital punishment are also making urgent pleas for Biden to act in the 10 weeks he has left in the Oval Office.
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