PBS Embraces Biden's Controversial Clemency for Death Row Inmates

The Monday edition of the PBS News Hour gave an early Christmas gift to the outgoing Biden administration by openly embracing Biden’s controversial commutation of the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners to life in prison, responsible in whole or part of over 49 murders, by NewsBusters count of the 37 commutations.

Such a controversy should merit at least a debate between opposing views on a tax-funded newscast with a congressional mandate to provide balanced coverage. But substitute anchor William Brangham’s only guest for the commutation segment was an anti-death penalty activist. There was not even a mention of the crimes committed by recipients of Biden’s ninth-inning clemency, much less any deep dive.