Since then, multiple religious and civil-rights groups have been demanding that the commander-in-chief reduce the sentence as many as 40 prisoners facing execution.
The outgoing commander-in-chief’s latest act comes just weeks after he commuted 1,500 sentences and pardoned 39 others in what was the largest single-day act of clemency.
President Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 death row inmates, converting their punishments to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Unlike executive orders, clemency decisions cannot be reversed by a president's successor, although the death penalty can be sought more aggressively in future cases.