Joe Biden's Death Row Commutations and the Pardon Power
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:32.8 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:41.0 | President Biden commutes the sentences of almost all federal inmates on death row. But is this an appropriate use of the presidential |
| 0:47.2 | pardon power? Could it add to the arguments for a constitutional amendment to rein that authority in? |
| 0:53.8 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall |
| 0:55.7 | Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues, columnist Bill McGern, and editorial board member |
| 1:01.0 | Manet Uquay-Ukwe-Berua. On Monday, December 23rd, Christmas Eve Eve, President Biden and his White |
| 1:07.8 | House put out the following statement. Today, I am commuting the sentences of |
| 1:12.7 | 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death road to life sentences without the possibility of |
| 1:19.1 | parole. These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed |
| 1:24.3 | on federal executions in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass |
| 1:30.2 | murder. The president went on to condemn these crimes, but said that I'm more convinced than ever |
| 1:35.7 | who we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level in good conscience. |
| 1:39.7 | I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted. |
| 1:46.0 | Bill, what do you make of this? |
| 1:47.5 | And notable that the president is nodding explicitly to the handover of power here coming on January 20th, |
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