Biden urged to commute sentences of all 49 federal death row prisoners

Posted on AllSides January 23rd, 2021
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Led by two prominent African American congresswomen, 35 Democrats have urged Joe Biden to commute the sentences of all 49 federal prisoners left on death row – days after the Trump administration finished its rush to kill 13 such prisoners.

Early last Saturday Dustin Higgs, 48, became the last of those prisoners to be killed, after Trump lifted a long-standing moratorium on federal executions. Biden entered the White House on Wednesday.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, of the 49 people still on federal death row, 21 are white,...

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