Biden under pressure to commute federal death sentences
Raw Storyby Chris Lefkow U.S. President Joe Biden is facing growing calls to commute the death sentences of the more than three dozen federal inmates on Death Row before Donald Trump returns to the White House. A coalition of death penalty opponents submitted a letter to Biden on Monday asking him to commute federal death sentences to life in prison without parole. "The only irreversible action you can take to prevent President-elect Trump from renewing his execution spree, as he has vowed to do, is commuting the death sentences of those on federal death row now," the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and more than 130 other organizations said. According to The Washington Post, the White House is considering "taking steps to commute at least some federal death sentences."