Trump to Direct Prosecutors to Vigorously Pursue Death Penalty for Violent Criminals
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December 25, 2024 Hour: 1:56 pm
‘We will be a nation of law and order again!,” the U.S. President-elect vowed.
On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump stated that he would direct the Department of Justice (DOJ) to “vigorously” pursue the death penalty in cases of violent crimes.
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His remarks come a day after U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 out of the 40 people on federal death row. Only three inmates remain on death row.
“Joe Biden just commuted the death sentence on 37 of the worst killers in our country. When you hear the acts of each, you won’t believe that he did this. Makes no sense… We will be a nation of law and order again!” Trump posted in social media.
Biden left intact the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the perpetrators of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured more than 260, including 17 individuals who suffered serious amputations.
The outgoing president also did not commute the death sentences of Robert Bowers, convicted of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Dylann Roof, convicted of the shooting at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
The Democrat politician defended his decision, stating that the United States “must end the use of the federal death penalty, except in cases of terrorism and hate-driven mass murders.”
When his administration began in January 2021, Biden implemented a moratorium on federal executions. His actions on this matter today aim to prevent Trump’s administration from “enforcing execution sentences that would not align with current policy and practice.”
teleSUR/ JF Sources: EFE – Xinhua