3 hours ago Fate of Trump's Cabinet picks unclear as Republicans prepare to take power in Senate

The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December carefully dodging questions

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5 hours ago Biden gets support for commuting federal death row sentences for 37 of 40 prisoners

NPR's Asma Khalid talks with Abraham Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action about President Biden's decision to commute the death penalty sentences of all but three people on federal death row.

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19 hours ago Trump pledges to bring back federal executions after Biden commutes death sentences for 37 inmates

On Monday, President-elect Trump promised to resume federal executions upon taking office for a second term after a moratorium on the practice.

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20 hours ago Biden's rationale behind Christmas present for death row killers foggy at best: expert

President Biden's rationale behind his move to commute the sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates on death row remains unclear, according to crime data expert John Lott.

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21 hours ago Readers disagree with Biden’s decision to commute 37 death row sentences. Here’s why.

“If [Biden] disapproved of the applicable federal law, he should have tried to change it democratically – not swept it aside,” one respondent said. The post Readers disagree with Biden’s decision to commute 37 death row sentences. Here’s why. appeared first on Boston.com.

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25 hours ago Family of murdered SC woman rages at Biden for commuting killer's death sentence: 'She was shown no mercy'

Donna Major's husband Danny Jenkins and daughters Heather Turner and Katie Jenkins called out President Biden for commuting the death sentence of her murderer Brandon Council.

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28 hours ago United States: Biden commutes sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates

United States: Biden commutes sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates  La Croix International

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29 hours ago Former federal prosecutor in death row case speaks on Biden commuting murderer's sentence: 'My heart aches'

Former federal prosecutor Derek Shoemake, who worked a death row case, speaks out on the difficulty of seeing President Biden commute the sentence of a "remorseless murderer."

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29 hours ago CNN's Williams: Biden Only Commuted Death Sentences in Cases People Didn't Know About

On Monday’s “CNN NewsNight,” CNN Legal Analyst Elliot Williams, who served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General during the Obama administration, said that while he thinks the death penalty should be abolished, President Joe Biden only commuted death sentences where the cases weren’t The post CNN’s Williams: Biden Only Commuted Death Sentences in Cases People Didn’t Know About appeared first on Breitbart.

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