President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, sparing them from execution, but excluded three men convicted of notorious mass killings: Robert Bowers, who killed 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018; Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who murdered nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who carried out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, killing three and injuring hundreds. Biden, opposed to the death penalty, justified his decision by citing the heinous nature of these hate-driven and terroristic acts. The three men remain on death row under federal sentencing.
President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, sparing them from execution, but excluded three men convicted of notorious mass killings: Robert Bowers, who killed 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018; Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who murdered nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who carried out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, killing three and injuring hundreds. Biden, opposed to the death penalty, justified his decision by citing the heinous nature of these hate-driven and terroristic acts. The three men remain on death row under federal sentencing. President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, sparing them from execution, but excluded three men convicted of notorious mass killings: Robert Bowers, who killed 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018; Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who murdered nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who carried out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, killing three and injuring hundreds. Biden, opposed to the death penalty, justified his decision by citing the heinous nature of these hate-driven and terroristic acts. The three men remain on death row under federal sentencing. Read More
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