Donald Trump, on Tuesday, criticized Joe Biden's decision to commute the death penalty issued by the US federal judiciary against 37 prisoners, weeks before the transfer of power from the Democratic president to his Republican successor, who supports the death penalty.
The billionaire Republican wrote on his platform, “Truth Social,”: “Joe Biden just commuted the death sentences issued for 37 of the worst killers in our country; When you realize the actions committed by each of them, you will not believe that he did this.” He added: “This step has no meaning. Relatives and friends of (the victims) were even more shocked. They couldn’t believe what was happening!”
Donald Trump's statements came after the outgoing president announced yesterday the commutation of the death penalty issued by the federal judiciary against 37 of 40 convicts.
The human rights organizations that moved weeks ago to convince Biden confirmed that it was “the largest number of death sentences that an American president has decided to commute in the modern era,” and they feared that executions would be carried out with the return of Donald Trump to the White House on January 20, who is considered one of the strongest supporters of this punishment. .
During his election campaign, Trump called for expanding the scope of application to include immigrants convicted of killing American citizens or people active in drug and human trafficking.
