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US President Joe Biden

Washington: US President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 out of 40 people facing death penalty to life imprisonment. This announcement has been made just weeks before the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, who is a vocal supporter of the death penalty.

The sentence of three prisoners will remain intact

Biden’s move would extend life to those convicted of murders of police and military officers, people living on federal lands and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals, as well as the killings of security guards or inmates at federal facilities. Provides. This means only three federal inmates will now be sentenced to death.

These prisoners did not get relief

The three inmates scheduled to be executed are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racial murder of nine black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who carried out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Robert Bowers, the man who shot and killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh It was the deadliest anti-Jewish attack.

What did Biden say?

“I have dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” Biden said in a statement. Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row to life without the possibility of parole. “This is consistent with my Administration’s moratorium on the death penalty in cases other than terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate.” (AP)