Trump Pledges to 'Vigorously Pursue the Death Penalty' | Common Dreams

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : During his first term, Trump praised then-Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who oversaw the extrajudicial execution of thousands of drug dealers and users, for doing "an unbelievable job on the drug problem.
45% : ""In the last six months of his first term, President Trump executed 13 individuals -- more than any administration in 120 years," Romero noted.
42% : "In the last six months of his first term, President Trump executed 13 individuals -- more than any administration in 120 years," one critic noted.
34% : They can't believe this is happening!""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 said in a separate Truth Social post.
31% : "ACLU executive director Anthony Romero called Biden's move "the most consequential step of any president in our history to address the immoral and unconstitutional harms of capital punishment" and a bulwark against Trump, who "has a proven penchant and track record of conducting rushed executions.
30% : In 2021, Biden's Justice Department paused federal executions.
26% : Death penalty foes are particularly worried about Trump's campaign promise to seek federal death sentences for crimes other than murder.
23% : "We're going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts," Trump said earlier while announcing his 2024 run for president.
21% : "In 1994, then-President Bill Clinton signed into law the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act -- commonly known as the Crime Bill -- which expanded the federal death penalty to approximately 60 crimes, including three that do not involve murder: espionage, treason, and large-scale drug trafficking.
20% : Responding to Democratic President Joe Biden's Monday commutation of 37 federal death sentences -- an action that cannot be reversed -- Trump took to his Truth Social platform to condemn the move.
9% : "Joe Biden just commuted the Death Sentence on 37 of the worst killers in our Country," Trump fumed.
7% : "When I am back in the White House, I will immediately end the Biden border nightmare that traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable women and children," Trump said in July 2023.

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