President Joe Biden, the 82-year-old outgoing president of the United States, recently commuted most federal death sentences.
The reason for this hasty and far-reaching decision on December 23 to downgrade these sentences to life imprisonment seems to be to prevent President-elect Donald Trump – a longtime advocate for state-sanctioned execution – from ensuring that all these criminals meet their ends at the hands of the government.
After making the decision, Biden commented: “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions.”
