President-elect Donald Trump reacted to President Joe Biden’s commutation of the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row with befuddlement and disbelief on Tuesday, claiming the decision “makes no sense.

President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of nearly all prisoners on federal death row, sparing the lives of 37 men just a month before Donald J. Trump will return to the Oval Office with a promise to restart federal executions.

President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of 37 death row inmates ignited a fierce debate about the morality of executions.

President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of 37 people on death row, which means those individuals will have their sentences changed from execution to life without parole, the White House said in a press release on Monday.

President-elect Trump promised to resume federal executions upon taking office for a second term after a moratorium on the practice.

President-elect Donald Trump said on social media he will direct the Justice Department to "vigorously pursue" the death penalty amid President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of nearly all federal death row prisoners.

If [Biden] disapproved of the applicable federal law, he should have tried to change it democratically – not swept it aside,” one respondent said. The post Readers disagree with Biden’s decision to commute 37 death row sentences.