Biden commutes 37 death sentences

Financial Times

Financial Times

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The three left on death row were those responsible for massacres: Dylann Roof, 30, murdered nine black parishioners in Charleston in 2015; Robert Bowers, 52, murdered 11 Jewish congregants at the Tree of Life Synagogue; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 31, one of the brothers behind the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and injured hundreds more.
The Gazette
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United States President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row in his weeks in office before the second term of President-elect Donald Trump.
Aljazeera
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The move leaves only a handful of high-profile killers who acted out of hate or terrorism facing the federal death penalty, for which there has been a moratorium under Biden.
Hürriyet Daily News
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Some of the sentences commuted include Thomas Sanders, who kidnapped and shot Lexis Roberts, 12, four times before cutting her throat.
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