Before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of several killers on death row. Now, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi wants to reverse those decisions and tell state officials to go after the death penalty for the inmates.
Bondi wrote a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) employees about the commutes. In the letter, she said that Biden’s decision to grant the commutes “undermined our justice system and subverted the rule of law.”
“The commutations also robbed the victims’ families of the justice promised — and fought hard to achieve — by the Department of Justice,” Bondi wrote. “The Department of Justice is directed to immediately commence the following actions to achieve justice for the victims’ families of the 37 commuted murderers.”
“Explore opportunities to provide a public forum for the victims’ families to express how the commutations affected them personally,” Bondi said, calling it an “important step” toward building trust and holding people accountable, Fox News reported.
