Joe Biden's Death Row Commutations and the Pardon Power

Update: 2024-12-27

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The president spares 37 of the 40 inmates facing the federal death penalty, commuting their sentences to life in prison. Is this an appropriate use of the pardon power, issuing mass clemency based on policy disagreements with the law? Will this action in Biden's last days in office, so soon after he pardoned his son Hunter, add to the arguments for a constitutional amendment?

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Joe Biden's Death Row Commutations and the Pardon Power

Paul Gigot, The Wall Street Journal

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Joe Biden's Death Row Commutations and the Pardon Power

Paul Gigot, The Wall Street Journal

Joe Biden's Death Row Commutations and the Pardon Power