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President-elect Trump vowed on Monday to seek the death penalty for certain federal criminal defendants, days after President Biden controversially commuted the death sentences of 37 inmates.
Biden’s move to reclassify death sentences to life without parole has been heavily criticized by the Republicans and many Democrats.
President-elect Donald Trump gestures at AmericaFest, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix. On Monday, Trump vowed that the Justice Department would initiate the death penalty following President Biden’s move to commute the death sentences of 37 inmates. (AP Photo/Rick Scooteri)
“As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Department of Justice to vigorously enforce the death penalty to protect America’s families and children from violent rapists, murderers and monsters,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. We will once again be a nation of law and order!”
In his message announcing the move, the The white house he said Biden’s actions would prevent the incoming Trump administration from “imposing sentences for the execution of sentences that would not be imposed under current policy and practice.”
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Only three men on death row failed to meet Biden’s commutation requests.
They are: Robert Bowers, the shooter from the Tree of Life synagogue who killed 11 people in 2018; Dylann Roof, a white racist who killed nine black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who worked with his now-dead brother to carry out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured hundreds.
Trump spokesman Steven Chueng said Monday that Biden’s action was “a slap in the face to the victims, their families and their loved ones.”
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During Trump’s first term, 13 federal prisoners were killed, the most under any president in a century. After taking office in 2021, Biden declared a moratorium on federal executions.
