Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of federal inmates on death row in the wake of Biden’s pardoning of his son Hunter Biden.
The New York Democrat and outspoken progressive told The Independent that commuting federal death sentences is more than just about the individual pardon, which many Democrats loudly criticized. Specifically, she cited Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who is serving a life sentence for killing two FBI agents, though advocates say he was wrongly convicted.
