“Joe Biden just commuted the death sentences of 37 of our country's worst killers. When you hear the actions of each one, you won't believe he did this,” the Republican wrote on Truth Social .
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“It makes no sense. The relatives and friends (of the victims) are even more devastated. They can't believe what is happening!”, he added.
The Democrat's decision constituted the “largest number of commutations of death sentences by an American president in modern times”, underlined human rights organizations, mobilized for weeks to convince Joe Biden.
They feared a wave of executions when Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20.
During his victorious campaign, Donald Trump had already called for extending the scope of the death penalty, in particular to immigrants convicted of murdering American citizens or to drug and human traffickers.
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The last federal executions took place at the end of the Trump presidency. After 17 years of interruption, 13 convicts were put to death between July 14, 2020 and January 16, 2021, “more than the ten previous administrations combined”, recalled the organizations.
Of some 2,300 prisoners on death row in the United States, only 40 were sentenced by federal justice until the clemency measure taken by Joe Biden. The Democrat excluded three perpetrators of attacks from his measure, including Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the bombers of the attack on the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
