Bloomington anti-death-penalty activist Glenda Breeden holds a lamp while protesting against the execution of Lisa Montgomery and two others.
Credit:	Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/SIPAPRE/Sipa USA/AP

Bloomington anti-death-penalty activist Glenda Breeden holds a lamp while protesting against the execution of Lisa Montgomery and two others.
Credit: Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/SIPAPRE/Sipa USA/AP

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More than 80 civil rights organizations call on Biden to abolish the federal death penalty

More than 80 nationally recognized criminal justice and civil rights advocacy organizations have joined in the call to President Joe Biden on Tuesday urging him to abolish the federal death penalty and commute the sentences of 49 death row inmates to life in prison.