Four men who are on federal death row for crimes committed in Missouri have had their sentences commuted by President Joe Biden.
Biden that he was commuting the sentences of most of the 40 federal inmates facing execution. The president said in a statement that he condemned the criminal acts that led to the sentences but added 鈥渋n good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.鈥�
The four men will spend the rest of their lives in prison.
A jury convicted and sentenced Billie Allen and Norris Holder to death in 1998 for an of the Lindell Bank and Trust near Forest Park that left a guard dead.
Wesley Coonce and Charles Hall were convicted in 2014 of killing a fellow inmate at the federal medical prison in Springfield, Missouri. At the time, Coonce was serving a life sentence for a Texas rape and kidnapping. Hall was serving a 16-year sentence after pleading to threatening a federal judge and prosecutor in Maine.
