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Death row inmates await Biden's promise to end federal executions
In whispers through air ducts and notes under cell doors, prisoners debate whether president will fulfill campaign promise
Associated Press in Terre Haute, Indiana
Mon 22 Mar 2021 10.02 EDT
Through notes passed under cell doors with string and conversations whispered through air ducts, death row prisoners in Indiana are debating whether Joe Biden will fulfill his campaign promise to halt federal executions.
Biden hasn’t spoken publicly about capital punishment since taking office four days after the Trump administration executed the last of 13 inmates at the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, where federal death row inmates are held.
That six-month run of executions cut the unit from around 63 to 50. Biden’s campaign website said he would work to end federal executions, but he has not specified how.
On Monday the supreme court added to potential challenges confronting Biden on the matter, when it said it would consider reinstating the death sentence for the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/22/death-row-inmates-biden-promise-end-federal-executions-trump
