Fox News: Trump pledges to bring back federal executions after Biden commutes death sentences for 37 inmates

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Trump pledges to bring back federal executions after Biden commutes death sentences for 37 inmates

On Monday, President-elect Trump promised to resume federal executions upon taking office for a second term after a moratorium on the practice.......                    ...                        ...You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login on Monday pledged to seek the death penalty for certain federal criminal defendants, days after President Biden controversially commuted the death sentences for 37 inmates. ......Biden's move to reclassify the death sentences to life without the possibility of parole was heavily criticized You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and many Democrats. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......"As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department 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 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login said Biden's actions would prevent the incoming Trump administration from "carrying out the execution sentences that would not be handed down under current policy and practice."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Only three men on federal death row failed to meet Biden's requirements for having their sentences commuted. ......They are: Robert Bowers, the Tree of Life Synagogue shooter who killed 11 people in 2018; Dylann Roof, a White supremacist who You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login 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 on Monday said Biden's action was a "a slap in the face to the victims, their families, and their loved ones."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......During Trump's first term, 13 federal prisoners were put to death, the most under any president in a century. Upon taking office in 2021, Biden declared a moratorium on federal executions....

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