Under pressure to fulfill a campaign promise before he leaves office, President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of nearly all federal inmates on death row to life in prison today, with the exception of three mass murderers.
The White House announced today that Biden is commuting the death penalty sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates, leaving only three sentences intact: those of Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018; Dylann Roof, who killed nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber.
