Biden considering clemency for death-row inmates — including men who slaughtered children, fellow inmates: report
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President Biden is considering commuting the death sentences of most — if not all — of the 40 men currently on federal death row for murder, according to a new report.
In addition to a handful of well-known notorious killers, five of the men murdered children, nine butchered fellow inmates and one killed a prison guard with a hammer while serving a life sentence for raping and murdering his wife, a US Marine.
Attorney General Merrick Garland has recommended that Biden, who opposes capital punishment, commute the sentences to life imprisonment for all but a handful of the 40 cases, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
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