Will Biden Commute the Sentences of 40 People on Death Row?

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Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings? </h1> <p class="post__excerpt mt-3"> With Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations will stop another federal execution spree. </p> <div class="article-byline mt-2.5 xl:mt-0 flex gap-2.5 justify-between items-start article-byline--single pb-5 xl:pb-7 xl:pt-4"> <div class="article-byline__wrapper flex gap-4"> <div class="article-byline__avatar hidden md:flex gap-2.5"> <a class="article-byline__avatar-link rounded-full overflow-hidden" rel="author" tabindex="-1" href="https://theintercept.com/staff/liliana-segura/" data-ga-track="article navigation" data-ga-track-action="author click - byline" data-ga-track-label="liliana-segura" > <img class="size-5 md:size-[60px]" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Q2A3391-1523551189-180x180.jpg" width="60" height="60" alt="" /> </a> </div> <div class="article-byline__info font-mono flex flex-col md:gap-[18px] text-[14px]"> <div class="article-byline__authors text-accentDynamic md:mt-1 md:leading-none"> <a class="text-accentDark xl:text-accentLight leading-[30px] md:leading-none" rel="author" href="https://theintercept.com/staff/liliana-segura/" aria-label="Posts by Liliana Segura" data-ga-track="article navigation" data-ga-track-action="author click - byline" data-ga-track-label="liliana-segura" >Liliana Segura</a> </div> <time datetime="2024-11-27T11:27:50-05:00" class="text-sm text-[#7e7e7e] leading-[30px] md:leading-none"> November 27 2024, 11:27 a.m. </time> </div> </div> <div class="relative inline-flex items-start print:hidden share--article pt-2 xl:pt-0" data-module="Share" data-module-text="Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. 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The sparing of the wattle adorned gobbling poultry became tradition in 1989 when US President George HW Bush said, "But let me assure you, and this fine tom turkey, that he will not end up on anyone's dinner table, not this guy -- he's granted a Presidential pardon as of right now" and every US President since then has continued the act of mercy. (Photo by Drew ANGERER / AFP) (Photo by DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)" sizes="100vw" srcset="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2186002703-e1732716864247.jpg?w=7307 7307w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2186002703-e1732716864247.jpg?w=2400 2400w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GettyImages-2186002703-e1732716864247.jpg?w=3600 3600w" width="7307" height="3653" fetchpriority="high" loading="eager" /> <div class="max-w-[47.5rem] w-full xl:max-w-[45rem] xl:mx-auto px-5 sm:px-10 xl:px-5 xl:border-l border-border"> <div class="image__caption pt-3 mb-10 text-left font-mono text-[13px] leading-[1.53] text-body"> <span>President Joe Biden walks through the Rose Garden before pardoning the National Thanksgiving Turkeys Peach and Blosson during an event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on November 25, 2024.</span> <span class="text-[#7e7e7e]">Photo: Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images</span> </div> <div class="entry-content entry-content--new" id="biden-has-pardoned-eight-turkeys-will-he-spare-the-lives-of-40-human-beings"> <div class="entry-content__content"> <p><span class="has-underline">Five days after</span> Orlando Hall was executed in the federal death chamber, Donald Trump appeared in the White House Rose Garden for the 2020 Thanksgiving turkey pardon ceremony. The enormous white birds, Corn and Cob, stood ridiculously as Trump wished them a “very long, happy, and memorable life.” At the Special Confinement Unit inside the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, men on death row watched news coverage on TV.</p> <p>It felt like a sick joke. “He could have used his pardon/clemency powers to spare any one of the five human beings facing imminent execution,” one man later wrote to me. But the executions that had started that summer showed no signs of slowing down. Some who had watched their neighbors taken to die over the previous months still dared to hope that the next man, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/12/05/federal-executions-brandon-bernard/">Brandon Bernard</a>, might be spared. “I’m cautiously optimistic,” one of them wrote a week later. “Perhaps President Trump will show an uncharacteristic display of humanity.”</p>  <div class="most-read" data-module="MostRead"> <div class="most-read__content"> <h2 class="most-read__header"> Most Read </h2> <div class="most-read__promos"> <div class="most-read__container"> <div class="most-read__item"> <a class="most-read__link image-hover-parent" href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/16/trump-pam-bondi-death-penalty-executions-prisons/"> <div class="image-hover-wrapper"> <img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" class="most-read__image" loading="lazy" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/AP25036643908786-e1739630157581.jpg?w=1200" alt="" /> </div> <div class="most-read__title"> Trump Is Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Federal Prisons Are Purposely Inhumane <div class="most-read__author"> Akela Lacy </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="most-read__item"> <a class="most-read__link image-hover-parent" href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/14/democrats-elon-musk-spacex-donations/"> <div class="image-hover-wrapper"> <img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" class="most-read__image" loading="lazy" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/AP24324819763710-e1739546771914.jpg?w=1200" alt="" /> </div> <div class="most-read__title"> Democrats Swear They’ll Fight Elon Musk. But What About the Cash They Took From SpaceX? <div class="most-read__author"> Matt Sledge </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="most-read__item"> <a class="most-read__link image-hover-parent" href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/15/columbia-alumni-israel-whatsapp-deport-gaza-protesters/"> <div class="image-hover-wrapper"> <img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" class="most-read__image" loading="lazy" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Columbia-Whatsapp.jpg?w=1200" alt="" /> </div> <div class="most-read__title"> The Columbia Network Pushing Behind the Scenes to Deport and Arrest Student Protesters <div class="most-read__author"> Natasha Lennard, Akela Lacy </div> </div> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="most-read__end" data-name="end"></div> </div>  <p>But there would be no such display. By the time Joe Biden arrived in the Oval Office in 2021, 13 people had been killed in the federal death chamber. It was an <a href="https://theintercept.com/series/out-for-blood/">unprecedented killing spree</a>: more executions over six months than over the previous 10 presidential administrations combined.</p> <p>Collectively, the 12 men and one woman executed in Terre Haute had been convicted of heinous crimes. But they also revealed the ugly face of the federal death penalty, which is wrongly assumed to apply only to terrorists or mass murderers — the ultimate “worst of the worst.” Most were human beings whose lives had been indelibly shaped by childhood abuse and neglect. Many had lawyers who disastrously failed them. Others had an intellectual disability or severe mental illness. More than one swore he was innocent; another was executed despite playing a marginal role in the crime that sent him to die. One man was executed over the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/us/arkansas-federal-death-penalty.html">loud</a> <a href="https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jul/19/family-says-actions-on-execution-add-to-grief/">objections</a> of the victim’s family.</p> <p>The executions were pushed through <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/opinion/justice-department-federal-execution.html">lawlessly</a>, in the first year of the Covid pandemic, long before a vaccine was available. Prison staff, attorneys, journalists, a spiritual adviser, and the condemned men themselves contracted the virus as the executions went on — an emblem of Trump’s recklessness, chaos, and cruelty.</p> <figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-right"><blockquote><p>“We’re dealing with a very different world this time.”</p></blockquote></figure> <p>But in truth, the executions were also the result of a long bipartisan project, much of it led by Biden himself. It was not just that Democrats were responsible for dramatically <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/07/29/death-penalty-federal-executions/">expanding</a> the federal death penalty, although that is certainly true. Of the 13 people executed by Trump, 10 had previously filed a clemency application to the Obama administration. His refusal to act set them up for execution.</p> <p>Now a growing chorus of people is urging Biden not to make the same mistake. “We’re dealing with a very different world this time,” said veteran death penalty lawyer Ruth Friedman, head of the Federal Capital Habeas Project. “People know this is a possibility because they see what has played out.”</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-cost-of-doing-nothing">The Cost of Doing Nothing</h2> <p>With just 54 days before he leaves the White House, Biden’s window for using his clemency power is rapidly closing. A majority of the 40 people on federal death row have filed requests for their death sentences to be commuted to life. While the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney processes applications and makes recommendations, the president can also unilaterally grant clemency to whomever he sees fit.</p> <p>Hundreds of advocacy organizations, from the <a href="https://action.aclu.org/petition/tell-president-biden-commute-row">American Civil Liberties Union</a> to the <a href="https://catholicsmobilizing.org/take-action/tell-president-biden-commute-the-federal-death-row/">Catholic Mobilizing Network</a>, have called on Biden to grant mass commutations to everyone on federal death row. The abolitionist group Death Penalty Action, which protested each execution in Terre Haute, is urging Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/biden-demolish-the-death-chamber/">demolish the death house</a> as well. The flurry of letters and petitions cite reasons ranging from <a href="https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/new-dpi-report-connects-modern-use-of-federal-death-penalty-to-its-racially-biased-history">persistent evidence</a> of racial bias — the majority of those on federal death row are people of color — to a lack of evidence that the death penalty deters crime. Public support for the death penalty has also steadily dropped for years; at the time of Trump’s execution spree, it had reached <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/03/if-biden-abolishes-federal-death-penalty-hell-have-more-support-than-you-think/">historic lows</a>. The well-documented risk of executing innocent people is at least one explanation.</p> <p>Biden, of course, knows all of this. When he ran for president on an anti-death penalty platform in 2020, his plan for criminal justice reform <a href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/promise/1530/eliminate-federal-death-penalty/">cited</a> death-row exonerations as one reason he would fight to pass legislation to end the federal death penalty. Those under a federal death sentence “should instead serve life sentences without probation or parole,” it said. Many are simply asking Biden to make good on this vow.</p> <figure class="wp-block-pullquote"><blockquote><p>The only way to guarantee that Trump is unable to push through another execution spree is to commute the sentences of those who remain.</p></blockquote></figure> <p>But the most pressing reason for Biden to act is the cost of doing nothing. There is no reason to doubt that Trump will continue what he started on his way out of the White House. Along with his repeated vows to expand the death penalty, the road map laid out in Project 2025 <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-plan-for-executions-if-trump-wins_n_663b97a7e4b0bcaefbf76812">includes</a> “finality” for the remaining 40 people on federal death row. The only way to guarantee that Trump is unable to push through another execution spree is to commute the sentences of those who remain.</p> <figure class="wp-block-ft-photo is-style-default"> <img decoding="async" src="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/AP20325064597563.jpg?fit=2000%2C1277" srcset="https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/AP20325064597563.jpg?w=2000 2000w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/AP20325064597563.jpg?w=300 300w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/AP20325064597563.jpg?w=768 768w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/AP20325064597563.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/AP20325064597563.jpg?w=1536 1536w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/AP20325064597563.jpg?w=540 540w, https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/AP20325064597563.jpg?w=1000 1000w" sizes="auto, (min-width: 1300px) 650px, (min-width: 800px) 64vw, (min-width: 500px) calc(100vw - 5rem), calc(100vw - 3rem)" alt="Sister Barbara Battista, right, tolls a bell before a minute of silence during the protest of the execution of Orlando Hall on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020 across the street from the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind. At left is attorney Ashley Kincaid-Eve. A federal judge halted the scheduled execution Thursday of Orlando Hall, a man convicted of kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old Texas girl, bludgeoning her with a shovel and burying her alive. ( Joseph C. Garza/The Tribune-Star via AP)" width="2000" height="1277" loading="lazy" /> <figcaption class="photo__figcaption"> <span class="photo__caption">Sister Barbara Battista, right, tolls a bell before a minute of silence during the protest of the execution of Orlando Hall on Nov. 19, 2020, across the street from the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind.</span> <span class="photo__credit">Photo: Joseph C. Garza/The Tribune-Star via AP</span> </figcaption> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-you-are-playing-a-part-in-this">“You Are Playing a Part in This”</h2> <p>Four years before the Trump administration executed him around Thanksgiving, Orlando Hall had appealed to President Barack Obama for clemency. When I <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/12/26/execution-death-penalty-families-orlando-hall/">met his partner</a> Shanyce Matthews weeks after his execution, she told me her family had been thrilled when Obama won the 2008 election. Although he supported the death penalty, she found herself hopeful that Hall might stand a chance to have his sentence commuted.</p> <p>She knew it was a long shot. There was no denying that Hall’s crime was horrific. In 1994, he and a group of men abducted, raped, and murdered a 16-year-old girl named Lisa René in Arlington, Texas — part of a botched drug operation that spiraled violently out of control. Hall became one of the first men sentenced to die under the 1994 crime bill.</p> <p>Nonetheless, there were serious <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/11/18/death-penalty-execution-orlando-hall/">problems</a> with his case. Hall, who was Black, was convicted and sentenced to die by an all-white jury who remained unaware of critical elements of his life story. Like so many people who end up on death row, Hall had survived harrowing childhood trauma. Case records included sworn declarations from family and neighbors who described alcoholism, domestic violence, and deprivation; a local pastor remembered one of Hall’s siblings asking if he and his wife would be willing to adopt her. Such evidence can make the difference between life and death in a capital trial. But Hall’s attorneys failed to fully investigate and present this side of their client’s life.</p> <p>Hall changed during his 25 years on death row. His children described him as a caring and supportive father and grandfather. A longtime pen pal described his love of reading and his expressions of deep remorse. 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Will Biden Commute the Sentences of 40 People on Death Row?