As President Biden's term ends, here are the variety of ways people seek pardons to wipe away criminal charges or convictions.

"I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level," President Joe Biden said in a statement released Monday.

The lame-duck president will continue to announce pardons and sentence commutations before he leaves office on January 20. On December 23, he commuted the sentences of nearly all federal prisoners on death row.

As Joe Manchin prepares to leave Congress after nearly 15 years, the West Virginia senator — who left the Democratic Party and registered as an independent earlier this year — is further distancing himself from his former party,