WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden is against the death penalty and will work to end its use, his spokesman said Saturday, as the Justice Department scheduled three more federal executions during before the Jan.
20 inauguration, including two shortly before he is set to take office.The Bureau of Prisons on Thursday carried out the eighth federal execution this year, after a 17-year hiatus, and it is likely to increase pressure on Biden decide whether his administration would continue to schedule executions once he is sworn in.
Advocacy groups have called on the Trump administration to pause all executions until Biden takes office. Biden “opposes the death penalty now and in the future,” press secretary TJ Ducklo said.