Fact Check: Biden granted clemency to 3 Chinese citizens as part of prisoner swap
U.S. President Joe Biden granted clemency to three Chinese citizens in November 2024 as part of a prisoner swap with China, contrary to social media posts suggesting it was a unilateral decision to free people who committed serious crimes.
‘A slap in the face’: Families call on Biden not to grant clemency to death row inmate
President-elect Donald Trump has made clear he intends to seek more executions when he returns to office, something President Joe Biden has been outspoken against. Now, as Biden faces pressure from advocacy groups to grant clemency to all 40 inmates on death row before he leaves office,
President Biden’s act of clemency: 37 death row inmates avoid execution
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
President Biden grants clemency to nearly all federal death row inmates
Three people remain on federal death row after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 inmates to life in prison without parole.
Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 inmates on federal death row
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole, before he hands power to President-elect Donald Trump on Jan.
Biden commutes most federal death row sentences to life in prison before Trump takes office
President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is taking 37 people off federal death row to serve out life sentences behind bars — a decision that leaves only three federal prisoners awaiting execution when President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month.
Your Morning: Biden commutes sentences of 37 death row inmates to life without parole
Welcome to the Your Morning newsletter featuring the latest news across America! It’s Dec 23. 2024, and there’s a lot happening today. Let’s dive into it.
Cooper pardons Haywood County man, plans more acts of clemency before end of year
Gov. Roy Cooper issued a pardon of forgiveness to a Haywood County man convicted of multiple misdemeanor crimes in 2011.
Victim’s shattered kin wants Biden to ‘explain to our faces’ stunning death-row Christmas clemency
He should have gotten that penalty,” said Alex Snell of Jorge Avila-Torrez, who fatally strangled Snell’s 20-year-old sister, ...
'Squad' Dem applauds Biden for sparing murderers from 'racist' death penalty in 11th-hour clemency move
House Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley is among the left-wing lawmakers praising President Biden's decision to commute 37 ...
Kentucky fen-phen attorney who bilked clients out of millions granted clemency by Biden
Disbarred Lexington attorney William Gallion was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2009 for his role in defrauding his ...
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev excluded from Biden's clemency for death row inmates
The Boston Marathon bomber is not among the federal death row inmates to have their sentences commuted by President Biden.
Biden grants clemency for nearly 1,500 people, the biggest single-day act of clemency in modern history
President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he is commuting the sentences of some 1,500 individuals and pardoning 39 people ...
Biden pardoned son while leaving hundreds seeking clemency in limbo
President Biden’s historic one-day clemency act included commutations that sparked outrage, in part because the White House ...
The wildest Christmas pardons and clemency orders Biden handed out
President Joe Biden handed out a historic number of pardons and clemency orders during his final days in the White House. “As ...
Evers needs to follow through on clemency promises for deserving candidates | Letters
Despite his promises, Gov. Evers has done remarkably little since 2018 to reduce the number of people unnecessarily confined ...