Before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 death row inmates, replacing their executions with life imprisonment. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has now reversed course, directing officials to pursue the death penalty again where legally possible. Bondi criticized the commutations as
undermining justice and ordered the DOJ to support victims’ families and reassess inmate confinement conditions. Her actions mark a sharp shift in federal criminal justice policy and signal a more aggressive stance toward state cooperation and law enforcement.
