Washington. US President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned the death sentence of 37 out of 40 criminals. Biden took this step before the return of Donald Trump. Who did not pardon the death sentence of a large number of people during his first term. There is less than a month left for Trump to assume the presidency. Biden was facing increasing demands from opponents of the death penalty to commute the death penalty to life without parole. Now 37 people will face life imprisonment.
The move now leaves only a few high-profile murderers who committed crimes motivated by hatred or terrorism facing the federal death penalty. Biden said in a statement that ‘I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.’
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is one of three inmates who remain on federal death row. It helped carry out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Whereas Dylann Roof is an avowed white supremacist. Who shot and killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015. Along with this, the death penalty sentence of Robert Bowers, who killed 11 Jewish worshipers during the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, will also remain in place.
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they got pardon
Those whose sentences have been commuted include nine convicted for murdering fellow prisoners, four for murders committed during a bank robbery and one for killing a prison guard. Biden said, ‘Make no mistake, I condemn these murderers, mourn for the victims of their despicable acts, and grieve for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss.’ He said, ‘But driven by my conscience and my experience… I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.’
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FIRST PUBLISHED : December 23, 2024, 11:25 PM IST