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Biden's silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray

by Michael Tarm
| June 20, 2021 12:03 AM

CHICAGO (AP) — Activists widely expected Joe Biden to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment, especially since an unprecedented spate of executions by his predecessor ended just days before Biden took office.

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