The White House announced early Monday morning that Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly all the inmates on federal death row to prevent the incoming Trump administration from carrying out their execution sentences.

Of the 40 murderers currently on death row, Biden is reclassifying the sentences of 37 to life without the possibility of parole, Fox News reported.

Because Biden is against the death penalty at the federal level “except in cases of terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder,”  three cases were not included in the clemency:

Robert Bowers, convicted of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, which left 11 people dead; White supremacist Dylann Roof,  who killed nine parishioners at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who with his now-dead brother, detonated a bomb at the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing three people and injuring hundreds.

The 37 men being resentenced were convicted of murdering single or multiple persons, including law enforcement officers, children and witnesses.

Those inmates reportedly include:

Marcivicci Barnette, who killed a man in a carjacking and his ex-girlfriend; co-defendants Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks, who kidnapped and killed a woman after escaping prison; Anthony Battle, who killed a prison guard; Jason Brown, who stabbed a postal worker to death; Thomas Hager, who committed a drug-related killing; David Runyon, who participated in the murder-for-hire plot of a Naval officer; Thomas Sanders, who kidnapped and killed a 12-year-old girl; Rejon Taylor, who carjacked, kidnapped and killed a restaurant owner; and Alejandro Umana, who killed two brothers inside a restaurant.

Two men were on death row for the murders of witnesses: police officer Len Davis, who ordered the murder of a witness who was part of an investigation into a misconduct complaint against him, and Ronald Mikos, who killed a federal grand jury witness in a Medicare fraud investigation.

Ex-Marine Jorge Torrez was set to be executed for killing another servicemember.

The list also includes men who committed deadly bank robberies, such as co-defendants Billie Allen and Norris Holder, who killed a bank guard during their crime; Brandon Council, who killed two bank employees; and Daryl Lawrence, who killed a special-duty police officer during an attempted bank robbery.

Co-defendants James Roane, Jr., and Richard Tipton committed a series of drug-related murders as gang members with Corey Johnson, who was executed in 2021.

Julius Robinson killed two people over drugs, and so did co-defendants Ricardo Sanchez, Jr., and Daniel Troya, who killed a family, including two children.

Drug lord Kaboni Savage murdered or directed someone else to murder 12 people during a 16-year period – including an arson that killed six members of a federal informant’s family.

Edward Fields was on death row for murdering two campers on federal land, while Marvin Gabrion and Richard Jackson were both there for killing a woman on federal land in separate cases.

Co-defendants Jurijus Kadamovas and Iouri Mikhel were convicted of kidnapping and killing five Russian and Georgian immigrants for ransom.

Lastly, the following men were sentenced to death in various cases for killing a prisoner in federal prison: Shannon Agofsky, Carlos Caro, co-defendants Wesley Coonce and Charles Hall, co-defendants Christopher Cramer and Ricky Fackrell, Joseph Ebron and co-defendants Edgar Garcia and Mark Snarr.

The White House said the clemencies will prevent President-elect Donald Trump from “carrying out the execution sentences that would not be handed down under current policy and practice.”

The move comes after Biden executed the “largest single-day grant of clemency” in American history and pardoned his own son, Hunter,

On Dec. 12, he commuted sentences for roughly 1,500 people and granted 39 pardons for people released from prison and placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic.  And on Dec. 1, Biden signed a “full and unconditional pardon” for all offenses Hunter “may have committed” between 2014 and 2024,” getting his son off the hook for multiple felonies.

According to the White House statement, Biden has dedicated his career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system.

[H/T American Greatness]