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Early last Saturday Dustin Higgs, 48, became the last of those prisoners to be killed, after Trump lifted a long-standing moratorium on federal executions. Biden entered the White House on Wednesday.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, of the 49 people still on federal death row, 21 are white, 20 are black, seven are Latino and one is Asian.
Among those prisoners is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of planting pressure-cooker bombs on the route of the Boston Marathon in April 2013, killing three and injuring 264. His death sentence was overturned last year, a decision that is now before the supreme court.
In a letter sent to Biden on Friday, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Cori Bush of Missouri led lawmakers in calling on Biden “to take swift, decisive action”.
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Squad members Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush urge Biden to commute the sentence of EVERY death row inmate as they rip Trump s cruel execution spree
A group of 35 Democrats led by Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush is urging President Biden to commute the sentence of death row inmates
They wrote a letter to Biden on Friday in which they asked him to take all 49 federal inmates off death row You can ensure that there would be no one left on death row to kill, it said
In the three-page letter, the group also blasted Trump s execution spree
His administration lifted a moratorium on federal executions and 13 people were put to death while he was in office
At 1:31 a.m., in the dark of night on Jan. 13, the federal government executed Lisa Montgomery. She was the first woman executed by the federal government in almost 70 years and only the third woman executed by the Feds since 1900.For a short time in.