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Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to Biden's death row commutations

Dec. 23, 2024 18:16 PM EST

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Victims' families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on Monday, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences. Biden converted the sentences of 37...

Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump can resume executions

Dec. 23, 2024 18:11 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes...

Today in History: October 27, 11 killed in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Oct. 27, 2024 00:04 AM EDT

Today is Sunday, Oct. 27, the 301st day of 2024. There are 65 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 27, 2018, a gunman shot and killed 11 congregants and wounded six others at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S....