Biden Leaves Dylann Roof On Death Row, Commutes Sentences For All Black Prisoners Facing Federal Execution

In this image from the video uplink from the detention center to the courtroom, Dylann Roof appears at Centralized Bond Hearing Court on June 19, 2015, in North Charleston, South Carolina. | Source: Pool / Getty

President Joe Biden’s sweeping commutations on Monday for prisoners serving federal death sentences notably excluded three non-Black men, including an open white supremacist who carried out a hate-filled killing spree against nine unsuspecting parishioners at a historic Black church in South Carolina.