Former President Joe Biden’s decision to commute 37 federal death row sentences
has sparked backlash from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is seeking ways
to reverse it.Bondi criticized the move as undermining justice and stripping victims’
families of closure. She directed the DOJ to explore legal avenues for states to reinstate the death penalty,
ensure strict confinement conditions for the inmates, and provide victims’ families a public
platform.Biden’s commutations reduced sentences to life without parole but excluded mass
murderers like Dylann Roof and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Bondi is also leading legal battles against
state sanctuary policies, vowing lawsuits against states that defy
federal immigration laws, starting with New York and Illinois.
