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President-elect Trump On Monday, he pledged to seek the death penalty for certain federal criminal defendants, days after President Biden controversially commuted the death sentences of 37 inmates.
Biden’s decision to reclassify death sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole was widely criticized by the republicans and many Democrats.
President-elect Donald Trump takes aim at AmericaFest, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix. On Monday, Trump pledged that the Justice Department will pursue the death penalty following President Biden’s decision 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 pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers and monsters,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. We will be a nation of law and order again!”
In his message announcing the move, the White House said Biden’s actions would prevent the incoming Trump administration from “committing execution sentences that would not be issued under current policy and practice.”
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Only three men on federal death row did not meet Biden’s requirements to commute their sentences.
They are: Robert Bowers, the Tree of Life synagogue shooter who killed 11 people 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 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. Upon taking office in 2021, Biden declared a moratorium on federal executions.
