Progressive 'Squad' lawmaker cheers Biden for letting murderers off the hook with 'racist' death penalty

Progressive 'Squad' member Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley praised President Joe Biden commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row on Monday. Biden on Monday converted the punishments of the 37 on death row to life in prison just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office and is expected to resume executions. Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina won't get the clemency The three killers who remain on death row include Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh´s Tree of life Synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. While running for president in 2020, Biden's campaign website said he would 'work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level, and incentivize states to follow the federal government's example.'