With just a few weeks left in his term, President Joe Biden may commute sentences for the 40 inmates currently on death row, which includes Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
The move comes following pressure from religious and civil rights groups, who have been urging the president to commute death row sentences, which they believe are immoral. The Vatican also displayed support for commutations—last month, Pope Francis prayed for mercy for death row inmates in the US in his weekly address.
