U.S. President Biden said that he was commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes in a sweeping act of clemency during his final weeks in office.
The number of commutations was the highest by a president in a single day, the White House revealed.
In an interview with Time magazine, which named him as its person of the year for the second time, President-elect Donald Trump promised to start pardoning nonviolent participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol during the “first hour” he returns to office.
