Biden announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, including two from Illinois. But what will that mean?
The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals, as well as the killings of guards or prisoners in federal facilitiesthat he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, including two from Illinois.
Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklyDzhokhar TsarnaevFormer Illinois Gov. George Ryan commuted the death sentences of all inmates on death row before he left office in 2003. No one has been sentenced to death in Illinois since. on federal capital punishment to study the protocols used, which suspended executions during Biden's term.
He took a political jab at Trump, saying, “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”, Trump called for those “caught selling drugs to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts.” He later promised to execute drug and human smugglers and even praised China's harsher treatment of drug peddlers.
Martin Luther King III, who publicly urged Biden to change the death sentences, said in a statement issued by the White House that the president"has done what no president before him was willing to do: take meaningful and lasting action not just to acknowledge the death penalty’s racist roots but also to remedy its persistent unfairness.”
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