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Joe Biden’s Big Reversal on the Death Penalty

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Frida Ghitis: Joe Biden's position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, except for a few.

She says Biden 's endgame commutation of death sentences of 37 of the 40 federal death-row inmates.

Ghitis says Biden has mostly fulfilled a campaign promise that it seemed he’d all but abandoned.

David Gergen : Biden spared nearly everyone on federal death row, including Pittsburgh synagogue shooter.

Gergen says Biden 's position is that “we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level” He says nobody can undo these commutations; they’re permanent; the defendants will serve life in prison.

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72

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semi-formal

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English

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60

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