"While this is truly distressing news on a personal level for my family, it also feels like a complete dismissal and undermining of the federal justice system," Marissa Gibson said. "Lawrence's sentence was imposed by a jury, and it should be upheld as such."

US President Joe Biden on Monday (Dec 23) commuted the death sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row in the country.  The crimes of the 37 convicts who had their death sentences "reclassified from execution to life without the possibility of parole" included murder,

US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of nearly every inmate on federal death row. The 37 of 40 prisoners on federal death row have had their punishments reduced to life sentences without the possibility of parole,