Joe Biden reduces all but three US federal death sentences to life imprisonment

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The US president made the announcement weeks before Donald Trump takes office after his victory in November's presidential election.
42% : "Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole," the president added.
39% : "These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.
36% : Joe Biden has announced he is changing the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on death row in America to life imprisonment.
17% : Read more from Sky News: Trump threatens to retake Panama Canal King chooses former hospital chapel for Christmas message Donnie Oliverio, a retired police officer from Ohio, whose partner was killed by one of the men whose death sentence was converted, said an execution "would have brought me no peace".

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