If [Biden] disapproved of the applicable federal law, he should have tried to change it democratically – not swept it aside,” one respondent said. The post Readers disagree with Biden’s decision to commute 37 death row sentences.

President-elect Donald Trump says he'll “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions.

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.