"Before Donald Trump's first term, there hadn't been a federal execution in the U.S. in 17 years, and Higgs' death marked a grisly record for Trump: no President in more than a century had put as many people to death."
"Since Biden took office, no federal inmate has been executed. Trump has promised to start up federal executions again and said he wants to expand their use."
"The growing calls for Biden to act are coming from a wide range of death penalty opponents including Pope Francis and the country's Catholic bishops, racial justice groups, prosecutors, and civil rights lawyers."
"But commuting the sentences of every one facing federal execution—40 men in total, according to the Death Penalty Information Center—would be a particularly dramatic move."
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