President Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row inmates

WASHINGTON — The White House announced Monday that President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people who are on federal death row.

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The president will convert their punishments to life imprisonment.

It comes just weeks before president-elect Donald Trump, who is an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office.

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Only three federal inmates are still facing execution.

They include Dylann Roof, who killed nine black members of a church in South Carolina, one of the Boston Marathon bombers, and Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018.

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