Former President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of several death row inmates at the last minute before leaving office.
Now, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking to reverse those decisions and instruct state officials to pursue the death penalty for these inmates.
In a letter to Department of Justice (DOJ) employees on Wednesday, Bondi criticized Biden’s commutations, stating that they “undermine our justice system and subvert the rule of law.”
“The commutations also deprived the victims’ families of the justice they were promised and fought hard to