Joe Biden believes the death penalty "must stop" at the federal level, except for those guilty of terrorism and mass murder motivated by hate, the White House said.

Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, Except for a Few. The death penalty is not the hot-button political issue it was during the 1980s and ’90s,

President-elect Donald Trump said on social media he will direct the Justice Department to "vigorously pursue" the death penalty amid President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of nearly all federal death row prisoners.