'I don't buy it!' Dem clashes with GOP strategist lashing out at Biden over 'cynical play'
Raw StoryA pair of CNN commentators debated President Joe Biden's motives for commuting the sentences of nearly every federal inmate on death row. The outgoing president commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 death row prisoners to life in prison without the chance for parole, and Republican strategist Brad Todd argued that his decision was a cynical political ploy to distract from the pardon of his son Hunter Biden. "Now, a lot of us who have pro-life convictions and don't like the death penalty could have respected it if Joe Biden had started his term and said, 'Look, I'm a devout Catholic and I'm not for the death penalty, I'm going to end the federal death penalty. "But to come here at the end and say, 'I'm going to commute this death sentence and not that one,' and do so after he shielded from the voters when it can't hurt him politically."
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