Biden attributed his decision to political motivations around the upcoming Trump presidency, as well as his longstanding stance against federal executions "in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder."
I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted," he said in a statement.
During Trump's first term, he carried out 13 federal executions - more than under any president in modern history.
When we asked Boston.com readers to weigh in on Biden's decision, the majority (77%) of the more than 250 readers who responded to our poll disagreed with the move.
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