Joe Biden commutes the sentences of 37 death row inmates in the United States

The American president, Joe Bidenthis Monday commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 sentenced to death by the federal justice system, less than a month after the return of Donald Trump to the White Houseannounced the outgoing president.

Los 37 prisoners remain now convicts a life sentence “without the possibility of parole”said the democrat Biden in the statement.

Biden is against the pena of death and during his administration the Department of Justice issued a moratorium on executions in the federal system, which is different from sentences issued by judges in the states.

The three convicts who did not benefit from the presidential pardon were Djokhar Tsarnaevone of the perpetrators of the attack against the Boston Marathon in 2013, Dylann Roofa white supremacist who killed nine black people in a church in Charleston in 2015, and Robert Bowersconvicted of killing eleven people at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.

Among the beneficiaries there are nine convicts for killing other prisoners, four for murders committed during bank robberies and one who killed a prison guard.

“Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, I am sorry for the victims of their despicable acts, and it pains me that many families have suffered unimaginable and irreparable losses,” said Biden.

“But guided by my conscience and my experience… I am more convinced than ever that we must end the use of pena of death a federal level, he added.

During his election campaign this year, Trump defended the use of pena of death to punish migrants who murder US citizens and drug and human traffickers.

During the first government of the Republican magnate (2017-2021), States Joined suspended a moratorium on executions in federal jurisdiction that had been in place since 2003.

In the last six months of his mandate there were 13 executions at the federal levell, more than any other American president in 120 years.

The last one was carried out by lethal injection in an Indiana prison, in January 2021, four days before Trump will leave the White House.

The death penalty was abolished in 23 of the 50 states in the United States. Joined and in six others (Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee) a moratorium applies.

In 2024 there was 25 executions in the payes, all ordered in the state sphere.