Sydney Isenberg is an Emmy-nominated digital content producer with Denver7 (KMGH) in Denver, Colorado. She began her career in Bakersfield, California, after graduating from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in 2018.
DENVER — Denver District Attorney Beth McCann added her signature to a letter calling on President Joe Biden to commute the sentence of every inmate on federal death row before he exits the Oval Office. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, there are currently 40 people on federal death row. In July 2019, the federal government resumed executions after a nearly two-decade lapse. Colorado abolished capital punishment shortly after in early 2020.
'We need clear and lasting steps that will ensure that the next administration will not execute the people currently facing death sentences in the federal system,' the letter states. The 38 officials acknowledged the circumstances that led to such sentences but claimed 'the way that the death penalty has been carried out in our country raises serious concerns.
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