LDF Commends President Biden's Historic Clemency Efforts, Urges President to Commute the Death Sentences of All on Federal Death Row
December 13, 2024
December 13, 2024
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued the following news on Dec. 12, 2024:
Today, President Biden granted commutations to nearly 1,500 people serving the remainder of their sentences in home confinement under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The CARES Act was enacted in March 2020 and was later expanded to allow certain medically vulnerable people in federal prisons to be released into federal custody and reunited wit . . .
Today, President Biden granted commutations to nearly 1,500 people serving the remainder of their sentences in home confinement under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The CARES Act was enacted in March 2020 and was later expanded to allow certain medically vulnerable people in federal prisons to be released into federal custody and reunited wit . . .