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Biden urged to empty federal death row before Trump takes office

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A coalition of former prison officials, relatives of homicide victims, civil rights advocates and religious leaders are urging President Joe Biden to empty federal death row before he cedes the White House to President-elect Donald Trump .

Letters to Biden that are slated to be made public Monday ask him to commute all federal death sentences to life without parole.

The White House has been listening to the arguments and discussing possibly taking steps to commute at least some death sentences, people say.

Pope Francis , who has called for the abolition of the death penalty, prayed that the sentences of death row inmates in the United States be commuted or changed.

The letters to Biden calling on him to commute every federal death sentence approach the issue from different angles.

The death penalty has largely declined nationwide over the past quarter-century , with fewer people executed or sentenced to death.

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