The clemency action applies to all federal death row inmates except three convicted of terrorism or hate-motivated mass murder: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston marathon bombing attack; Dylann Roof, who shot dead nine Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Robert Bowers, who stormed a synagogue in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community and killed 11 worshippers in 2018.
He chose to exclude the three mentioned though. So clearly he’s compromising for crimes he or his base see as unforgivably evil.
Have you considered that the 3 he didn’t commute were chosen not because they deserve death, but are too dangerous to be set free?
The Boston Marathon bomber and 2 people who attacked religious ceremonies. These are people who are more likely to go on and try again. And each of their crimes resulted in multiple deaths the first time.
Unless you think they’re particularly likely to escape, I don’t see the difference between death and life without parole as regards “too dangerous to set free”. The unabomber died in prison serving out that very sentence.