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(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 inmates on federal death row, the White House said Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The move reduces the sentence for all but three of the 40 inmates on federal death row. Biden said that the commutations are “consistent with the moratorium my Administration has imposed on federal executions,” with the exception of terrorism and hate-motivated mass killings.<\/span><\/p>\n

The three people on the federal execution list who were not on Biden’s commutation list are\u00a0<\/span>Dzhokhar Tsarnaev<\/span>, one of the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing;\u00a0<\/span>Robert Bowers<\/span>, who was convicted of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue antisemitic attack; and\u00a0<\/span>Dylann Roof<\/span>, who killed nine Black churchgoers in a racially motivated shooting in South Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0<\/span>White House fact sheet<\/span>\u00a0about the move, the recipients of the commutations will have their sentences “reclassified from execution to life without the possibility of parole.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden wrote in a statement about the commutations.<\/span><\/p>\n

“But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level,” Biden added.<\/span><\/p>\n

The White House fact sheet said that the move was an effort to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from “carrying out the execution sentences that would not be handed down under current policy and practice.”<\/span><\/p>\n

This decision comes after some notable figures and many activists called for Biden to take action. Pope Francis has called for the sentences of Americans on death row to be commuted during his Angelus address in October, the\u00a0<\/span>Vatican News Source<\/span>\u00a0reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Today, I feel compelled to ask all of you to pray for the inmates on death row in the United States,” the Pope said at the time, according to the report. “Let us pray that their sentences may be commuted or changed. Let us think of these brothers and sisters of ours and ask the Lord for the grace to save them from death.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Biden is a devout Catholic and is set next month to visit the Holy See during a trip to Italy, where he will also have an audience with the pope.<\/span><\/p>\n

Activists have called for Biden to commute the sentence of many or all federal death row inmates for some time. More than 130 civil and human rights groups\u00a0<\/span>penned a letter<\/span>\u00a0to the president in early December calling on him to commute the sentences of “all individuals on federal death row.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“The only irreversible action you can take to prevent President-elect Trump from renewing his execution spree, as he has vowed to do, is commuting the death sentences of those on federal death row now. Your ability to change the course of the death penalty in the United States will be a defining, legacy-building moment in American history,” the letter said.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is also an issue of racial justice. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 38% of federal death row inmates are Black — compared to the 14% of total American population according to the\u00a0<\/span>Pew Research Center<\/span>. About 56% of the 40 men on federal death row were men of color, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

On CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, a close confidant of Biden, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said that he had urged the president to take action, citing the unfairness in the justice system.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There are some real questions about the fairness in the process of the death penalty in the United States,” Coons said.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added, “And I don’t know what President Biden will ultimately do, but I think there are reasons, both in terms of racial justice, due process, and what it says domestically and to the world about our values if we were to go ahead and execute all of these individuals, rather than have them spend the rest of life in prison.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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