President Trump has promised to attack drug gangs and called for the death penalty for street dealers. But he has also pardoned more than 20 people serving time for serious drug crimes, some involving violence.

Johnson, now 69, was facing life in prison without the possibility of parole for being a first-time nonviolent drug offender.

Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, joined GPB’s Pamela Kirkland to discuss President Joe Biden's decision to commute 37 federal death row sentences and its implications for the future of capital punishment in the United States.

Biden is now the third president to pardon a relative, after Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. Here's a look at the commonplace — yet often controversial — presidential power.