23 Dic. 2024
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has spared the lives of 37 men sentenced to death at the federal level. This Monday morning, just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, Biden commuted the sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Biden stated in a statement: “I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. “I cannot in good conscience stand by and allow a new government to resume the executions that I stopped.” Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, praised Biden's decision and said: “[La medida constituye] “an important turning point in ending the tragic and error-prone use of the death penalty in the United States.”
Biden did not commute the sentences of three other men sentenced to death at the federal level: Dylann Roof, the attacker who in 2015 killed nine black parishioners at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in the city of Charleston, South Carolina; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the perpetrator of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing; and Robert Bowers, who in 2018 killed eleven parishioners who were at the Tree of Life synagogue in the city of Pittsburgh, in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in United States history.
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