NOTICE: DEADLINE FOR NEXT DELIVERY IS JANUARY 8, 2025

NEWS FLASH!  On December 23, 2024, President Biden commuted the death settees of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row, but we need him to #FinishTheJob by commuting the rest, including the four on the military death row.

Donald Trump has a plan to drastically increase executions in the United States. Please urgently join us in calling on President Biden to take the following actions as soon as possible:

• Commute the sentences of all those remaining on federal and military death rows;
• Deauthorize all pending federal capital trial cases and establish guidelines prohibiting authorization of any new death penalty prosecutions during the remainder of your administration;
• Rescind the lethal injection protocol; rescind the “Manner of Execution” regulation that took effect in December 2020; rescind internal DOJ guidelines on litigating death row cases that took effect in December 2020
• Order the Federal Bureau of Prisons to demolish the federal execution chamber and the building in which it is housed at the Federal Correctional Institution at Terre Haute;

FURTHER: please consider the pardon request of Billie Allen, who asserts his innocence, as well as the posthumous pardon request of Alfred Bourgeois, who was executed on December 11, 2020 during the Trump execution spree, and whose family has established a credible innocence claim in his case and has written to you to request that you pardon him.

BACKGROUND:

President Biden pledged during his campaign to work to abolish the federal death penalty. He deserves credit for appointing an Attorney General who has not set execution dates. Some death notices have been withdrawn, however the Department of Justice is still seeking death in some cases, such as for hate-crime-motivated mass shooters and terrorists. Also, we have recently learned that corrections officers at the federal death row are staging "mock executions." It is time for President Biden to be unequivocal on this matter.

Former President Donald Trump oversaw an unprecedented 13 executions in the final six months of his term in office, making him the most-executing president since the 1940's.  Trump ignored clemency petitions filed for his consideration as well as the pleas of some victim family members who opposed the executions. Details of these cases raise questions of innocence/culpability, issues around serious mental illness, intellectual capacity, fairness, racial bias and other horrific issues that plague our modern death penalty.