Trump plans to bring back death penalty

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Trump wrote on Truth Social, echoing his long-standing advocacy for the use of the death penalty, which was part of his tough-on-crime rhetoric during the 2024 campaign.
47% : Trump wrote on Truth Social, echoing his long-standing advocacy for the use of the death penalty, which was part of his tough-on-crime rhetoric during the 2024 campaign.
38% : Outside of the federal system, there are over 2,000 people in the United States who were convicted in state courts and put on death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
38% : Outside of the federal system, there are over 2,000 people in the United States who were convicted in state courts and put on death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
29% : Those three remaining cases are all individuals who committed mass shootings or terrorist attacks: Robert Bowers, who killed 11 people at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018; Dylann Roof, a White nationalist who murdered nine people at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of two brothers responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.Biden's clemency decisions cannot be reversed when Trump takes office, but the president-elect's Justice Department could resume seeking the death penalty in future cases.
29% : During the final weeks of the 2024 campaign, Trump repeatedly vowed to push for the death penalty for any migrant who kills a U.S. citizen or a law enforcement officer.
29% : During the final weeks of the 2024 campaign, Trump repeatedly vowed to push for the death penalty for any migrant who kills a U.S. citizen or a law enforcement officer.
25% : After Biden's commutation of most federal death row inmates - which Trump on Truth Social said "makes no sense" - there will be just three individuals in federal prison facing the death penalty when the president-elect takes office in January.
25% : After Biden's commutation of most federal death row inmates - which Trump on Truth Social said "makes no sense" - there will be just three individuals in federal prison facing the death penalty when the president-elect takes office in January.
22% : Biden's clemency decisions cannot be reversed when Trump takes office, but the president-elect's Justice Department could resume seeking the death penalty in future cases.

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