U.S. President Joe Biden has decided to commute the sentences of 37 out of 40 individuals who were sentenced to death at the federal level.
These death sentences have been replaced with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, according to the White House. The list of commuted sentences does not include Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was sentenced to death in 2015 for orchestrating the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, or Dylann Roof, who was sentenced in January 2017 for killing nine African Americans at a church in Charleston in 2015.
The list also does not include Robert Bowers, for whom a death sentence was upheld by a jury in 2023 for a mass shooting at the Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, which resulted in 11 deaths.
Earlier, a coalition of human rights groups called on Biden to commute the death sentences of all 40 individuals before President-elect Donald Trump took office.
