WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 inmates, leaving only three people on death row in federal prisons.
As a presidential candidate, Biden argued in 2019 that "we must eliminate the death penalty."
Beyond federal death sentences, about half of states allow the death penalty.
More than two dozen people have been executed this year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
He has also called for the death penalty for "any migrant who kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer."
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