"We need to confront racial and income-based disparities in our justice system and eliminate overly harsh sentencing for non-violent crimes. As president, Biden will... 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."

Source: Joe Biden, "Justice," joebiden.com (accessed Aug. 26, 2019)

"No."

Source: Email from Kevin Zeese with the Hawkins campaign, July 2, 2020

"No. From bad policies like the War on Drugs, that set the stage for injustice, to a flawed criminal justice system, such government incompetence precludes any moral justification for executions. No life should be taken when there is any chance of innocence, and governments in the United States have failed on this front far too often.

A 2014 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences issued a conservative estimate that as many as one in every 25 citizens sentenced to death is actually innocent. The Innocence Project reports that as many as 367 people have been exonerated by DNA evidence after serving an average of 14 years in federal custody."

Source: Communication from the Jorgensen campaign to ProCon.org on Aug. 26, 2020