Pressure is growing on the White House to make something of Joe Biden’s last few weeks in office, and on Sunday it ratcheted up with a new, personal angle.
Biden was already facing calls last from opponents of capital punishment to commute the sentences of death row inmates and halt what could very well be a second Trump-led effort to accelerate the use of the death penalty in federal cases beginning next year. The president is now also seeing those calls taken on Pope Francis, the highest Catholic authority in the world and a man for whom the US president has repeatedly expressed great respect.
