Trump Plans to Seek Death Penalty ‘Vigorously’ in Federal Cases

December 24, 2024, 4:11 PM UTC

President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to order the Justice Department to expand its pursuit of capital punishment for violent criminals.

Trump posted Tuesday on Truth Social, to weigh in on the conservative backlash to President Joe Biden’s commutations of death row inmates by forecasting that he’ll take a much harsher approach.

Trump wrote that the moment he’s inaugurated, he’ll command DOJ “to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.”

His comment came as part of a repost of an article about Biden’s Monday decision to commute the death ...

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