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, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment,

He left intact the death sentences of the men convicted of "terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder" in the 2015 Charleston church shooting, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and 2018 massacre at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue.

According to the Journal's report, Biden's first called Defense Secretary Lloyd Austinabout the drones on December 12.

Most federal employees are set to start the new year making a little more cash after President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday. The executive order, announced Monday by the White House, said that a 2% pay increase will be given to most civilian ...

Donald Trump hit out Tuesday at Joe Biden for commuting the sentences of almost every American federal prisoner on death row, as the president-elect prepared to replace the Democrat in the White House.

The president commuted the death sentences of almost all of the men on federal death row, but left out three of the most well-known, including Roof.

President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences​. Their sentences will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

President Biden vetoed a bipartisan bill aimed at creating 66 new federal district judge positions, citing concerns over timing and motivation.

Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, Except for a Few. The death penalty is not the hot-button political issue it was during the 1980s and ’90s,

The majority has now confirmed more judges under President Biden than any majority has confirmed in decades,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer declared.

Biden's commutations leave three men on death row: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who carried out the Boston Marathon Bombing, Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pennsylvania, and Dylann Roof, who targeted and killed nine Black members of a church in South Carolina in 2015.

An Oklahoma man sentenced to death for killing a Texas couple as they camped in the Sooner State had his sentence commuted by President Joe Biden.