CNN Legal Analyst Elliot Williams discusses President Biden's commutation of federal death sentences, arguing that while he supports abolishing the death penalty, the criteria for these commutations raise concerns. Contributing columnist Jim Geraghty adds that politically sensitive cases seem to be excluded from the commutation process.
On Monday’s “CNN NewsNight,” CNN Legal Analyst Elliot Williams, who served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General during the Obama administration, said that while he thinks the death penalty should be abolished, President Joe Biden only commuted death sentences where the cases weren’t known.
Williams said, “I do think this decision was a long time coming. I’m sensitive to these arguments that, well, if you’re going to end the federal death penalty, end the federal death penalty and don’t create this sort of ham-fisted explanation for why you’re carving out three cases.
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