Biden will work to overturn his own death penalty legislation
May 6, 1994 - Congressional Record, debating the Biden crime bill
"I do think that it is totally appropriate for us to debate-and I might add, I am the author of the amendments the Senator from Washington State is referring to. The so-called Biden crime bill which passed out of here and all those death penalties in the crime bill, I wrote, I authored, I put in my bill, the bill that the Senate passed. I support the death penalty. I have supported the death penalty in appropriate cases, and I outline what those appropriate cases are in the crime bill. There are over 50 cases in which I say, if someone is found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and all of their appeals under the Constitution are exhausted, they should be put to death for having committed those crimes, and I list them in the Biden crime bill, the bill the Senate passed. So I am the author of those. And I do not mean I am author in terms of originality. I did not think up all of them, but I put them in the Biden crime bill. So, we should start from the premise that there are many of us who support the death penalty, vote for the death penalty, draft legislation expanding the death penalty, who feel that it is necessary to make sure that the application of those death sentences are done in a nondiscriminatory way."
https://www.congress.gov/103/crecb/1994/05/16/GPO-CRECB-1994-pt7-5.pdf
Joe30330…2020
"Eliminate the death penalty. Over 160 individuals who’ve been sentenced to death in this country since 1973 have later been exonerated. Because we cannot ensure we get death penalty cases right every time, Biden will work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level, and incentivize states to follow the federal government’s example. These individuals should instead serve life sentences without probation or parole."
https://joebiden.com/justice/