Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law professor emeritus, praised President Joe Biden for commuting 37 federal death sentences, but he told Newsmax on Monday he found Biden’s criteria “strange” regarding one he didn’t commute.

Dershowitz joined “Newsline” to discuss why Biden didn’t commute the sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev while allowing at least five child killers — including Thomas Sanders and Jorge Avila-Torrez — and several mass murderers to live out their lives in prison.

“Look, I oppose the death penalty. I’ve been opposing it since I was a law clerk, even before that in 1962. So, I’m pleased,” Dershowitz said. “Now the criteria seems strange; why he allows Tsarnaev to be executed. He was a very young man, deeply influenced by his older brother who was killed. And yet he commutes the sentence of merciless cop killers and children killers.

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