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.
To hear it from the conservative side of my family … “Is there no limit on how many people he can commute?” and “There’s no way he’s able to sign all those letters, he can barely keep his eyes open.”
I don’t know how accurate it is, but they were saying he has already freed 1,500 people. I asked how many of those people were convicted of non-violent drug related charges, and they did not know nor did they seem to care. I thought that was interesting given some of my relatives’, shall we call it, histories.
To hear it from the conservative side of my family … “Is there no limit on how many people he can commute?” and “There’s no way he’s able to sign all those letters, he can barely keep his eyes open.”
I don’t know how accurate it is, but they were saying he has already freed 1,500 people. I asked how many of those people were convicted of non-violent drug related charges, and they did not know nor did they seem to care. I thought that was interesting given some of my relatives’, shall we call it, histories.