President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of 37 death row inmates ignited a fierce debate about the morality of executions.

Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, Except for a Few. The death penalty is not the hot-button political issue it was during the 1980s and ’90s,

With just weeks left in office, US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates - potentially thwarting President-elect Donald Trump's plans to expand federal executions during his upcoming administration.

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers, who killed 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of life Synagogue, were among those whose death penalties were not commuted.

37 federal death row inmates had their death sentences commuted by President Biden Monday morning. All 37 men – convicted of murder - will now serve life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Of the 40 prisoners that remained on federal death row, Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 to life without the possibility of parole.