President-elect Trump on Monday pledged to hunt the demise penalty for sure federal felony defendants, days after President Biden controversially commuted the demise sentences for 37 inmates.
Biden’s transfer to reclassify the demise sentences to life with out the potential for parole was closely criticized by Republicans and lots of Democrats.
President-elect Donald Trump factors at AmericaFest, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix. On Monday, Trump pledged to have the Justice Department pursue the demise penalty following President Biden’s transfer to commute demise sentences for 37 inmates. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
“As quickly as I’m inaugurated, I’ll direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the demise penalty to guard American households and kids from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. We can be a Nation of Law and Order once more!”
In his message saying the transfer, the White House stated Biden’s actions would stop the incoming Trump administration from “finishing up the execution sentences that might not be handed down underneath present coverage and follow.”
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Only three males on federal demise row failed to satisfy Biden’s necessities for having their sentences commuted.
They are: Robert Bowers, the Tree of Life Synagogue shooter who killed 11 folks in 2018; Dylann Roof, a White supremacist who killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who labored along with his now-dead brother to hold out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three folks and injured lots of.
Trump spokesman Steven Chueng on Monday stated Biden’s motion was a “a slap within the face to the victims, their households, and their family members.”
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During Trump’s first time period, 13 federal prisoners had been put to demise, essentially the most underneath any president in a century. Upon taking workplace in 2021, Biden declared a moratorium on federal executions.
