Mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office, President Joe Biden is commuting

President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of all but three of the men on federal death row. Dylann Roof, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Robert Bowers will be the only men on the federal execution list when President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding the death penalty, takes office on January 20.

Biden changes the sentences of 37 of 40 on federal death row to life without parole, saying he was convinced “that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.”