Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, Except for a Few. The death penalty is not the hot-button political issue it was during the 1980s and ’90s,

President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of 37 death row inmates ignited a fierce debate about the morality of executions.

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row. Dylann Roof, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers will be the three left on the federal execution list when President-elect Donald Trump,

Recent polling shows support for the death penalty at a five-decade low, and half of the population thinks the death penalty is applied unfairly.

President-elect Trump promised to resume federal executions upon taking office for a second term after a moratorium on the practice.

If [Biden] disapproved of the applicable federal law, he should have tried to change it democratically – not swept it aside,” one respondent said. The post Readers disagree with Biden’s decision to commute 37 death row sentences.