The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals, as

Mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office, President Joe Biden is commuting

President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of Daniel Troya and Ricardo Sanchez, convicted in the 2006 murders of two boys and their parents.

Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said.

A Philadelphia criminal convicted of masterminding a dozen murders, including a devastating house fire that killed four children two decades ago, was just granted life in prison by President Joe Biden.

The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals.

Only three inmates were left to face the death penalty, including convicted Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers, who was sentenced to death for killing 11 worshippers and wounding seven during a shooting at a the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018.

The US president has commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people currently on federal death row, downgrading their punishment to life imprisonment. But three will still face the death penalty

Among the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences President Joe Biden commuted to life in prison were men convicted of slaughtering a family.