Innocence Project Response to President Biden’s Historic Federal Death Row Commutations
The decision acknowledges the fallibility of the capital punishment system.
Breaking 12.23.24 By Innocence Staff
President Joe Biden speaks during an event about high speed internet infrastructure, in the East Room of the White House, Monday, June 26, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The Innocence Project applauds President Biden’s historic decision to commute the sentences of 37 men on federal death row.
More than 200 innocent people were exonerated from death rows across the country. Others were not so fortunate, like our client Marcellus Williams in Missouri who was executed despite the lack of evidence linking him to the crime for which he was wrongfully convicted. The flaws that permeate the state systems – including racial bias, unreliable science, police and prosecutorial misconduct – also plague the federal capital punishment system.
As United States Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun said some 30 years ago, it is time to “concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.”
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