拜登为37名联邦死囚减刑：改判终身监禁不得假释
美国总统拜登12月23日在华盛顿宣布，将联邦死囚区40人中37人的刑罚由死刑减为终身监禁、不得假释。白宫同日发布的事实清单列出了这37人的名单。
拜登在声明中表示，这些减刑与他的政府对联邦处决实施的暂停一致，恐怖主义与出于仇恨动机的大规模谋杀案件不在此列。未获减刑的3人为：2013年波士顿马拉松爆炸案的 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev、2015年在南卡罗来纳州 Charleston 一座历史悠久的黑人教堂枪杀9人的 Dylann Roof，以及2018年在宾夕法尼亚州 Pittsburgh 的 Tree of Life 犹太会堂枪杀11人的 Robert Bowers。
拜登在声明中说，他谴责这些杀人者、为受害者哀悼，也为所有遭受无法想象、无可挽回损失的家庭心痛；但基于良知与他作为公设辩护人、参议院司法委员会主席、副总统与总统的经历，他比以往任何时候都更确信，美国必须在联邦层面停止使用死刑。他说，他无法袖手旁观、让新一届政府恢复被他叫停的处决。
拜登政府2021年宣布暂停联邦死刑执行、以研究相关规程，拜登任内没有执行过联邦处决。白宫指出，拜登至其任期此时点已发布的减刑数量，超过其近几任前任在第一任期同一时点的数量。本次减刑之后，联邦死囚区只剩上述3人仍面临处决。（来源：白宫）
Biden Commutes the Sentences of 37 Federal Death Row Inmates to Life Without Parole
President Joe Biden announced in Washington on December 23 that he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole. A White House fact sheet released the same day listed the 37 individuals.
Biden said in his statement that the commutations are consistent with the moratorium his Administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder. The three men who did not receive commutations are Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing; Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2018.
Biden said he condemns these murderers, grieves for the victims of their despicable acts, and aches for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss, but that, guided by his conscience and his experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President and President, he is more convinced than ever that the United States must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. He said he cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that he halted.
The Biden administration announced a moratorium on federal executions in 2021 to study the protocols used, and no federal executions were carried out during Biden's term. The White House noted that Biden has issued more commutations at this point in his presidency than any of his recent predecessors at the same point in their first terms. After the commutations, only the three men named above remain on federal death row facing execution. (Source: The White House)
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图片来源：图：拜登总统2024年12月8日在白宫罗斯福厅发表讲话，为其2024年12月同期官方照片。白宫官方照片，Adam Schultz 摄，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on December 8, 2024, an official White House photo from the same month. Official White House photo by Adam Schultz, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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