President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    72·
    2 months ago

    Others are advocating for Biden to commute the sentences of federal death row prisoners. His attorney general, Merrick Garland, paused federal executions. Biden had said on the campaign trail in 2020 that he wanted to end the death penalty but he never did, and now, with Trump coming back into office, it’s likely executions will resume. During his first term, Trump presided over an unprecedented number of federal executions, carried out during the height of the pandemic.

    Yeah, well watch that not happen.

    America’s bloodlust can never be satiated.

    Trump will probably bring back gladiatorial combat as a Twitter video exclusive.

    • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
      101·
      2 months ago

      Literally the very first paragraph of the story. The very first.

      President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It’s the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.

      Why? Because the president has arguably unlimited power to pardon federal crimes.