Donald Trump he promised that when he returns to be president of the United States death sentences will increase. The tycoon Republican he said that when he takes power again on January 20, he will direct his Justice Department to “pursue vigorously” the death penalty to protect the Americans and “violent rapists, murderers and monsters”.
Trump against Biden and the commutation of the death sentences of 37 prisoners
Trump's statement on his social media platform Truth Social was a response to the outgoing president's Monday, December 23, announcement Joe Bidenin which he announced that he had having exchanged the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners federal in arm of deathconverting them to life sentence without parole.
“I strongly condemn these murderers, I feel sorry for the victims of their horrific crimes, and I suffer together with the families who have suffered irreparable losses,” the president of the United States declared in the statement released on Monday. “But, guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice president and now President, I am increasingly convinced that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level.”.
The leniency, however, had not been extended to three convicted for crimes of terrorism o massacres motivated by hatred: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, responsible for the marathon attack in Boston of the 2013; Dylann Roofauthor of the massacre in the African-American church of Charleston In the 2015; e Robert Bowerswhich in 2018 killed 11 believers in one synagogue Of Pittsburgh.
“Immediately after the oath, vigorously pursue death penalty for rapists, murderers and violent monsters”
“As soon as I am inaugurated, I will give the order to Department of Justice to pursue with forza the death penalty to protect the families hey children Americans from rapists, murderers e monsters violent”Trump said. “It doesn't make sense. The family and friends (of the victims) are even more devastated. They can't believe what's happening!”he added, promising: “We will be a nation of again law e order!”.
Death penalty commuted less than a month after Trump took office
The decision Of Biden she arrived within weeks of taking office at White House of the president-elect Donald Trumpscheduled for January 20, 2025. The tycoon has never hidden that he is in favor of pena Of death. The Republican restarted the federal executions during his first term, from 2017 to 2021, after one break almost 20 years. Unlike him Bidenwho ran for president opposing to the death penalty, he had suspended the executions federal governments when he took office in January 2021 and the decision to commute the sentences of 37 prisoners was taken precisely to avoid awave of executions when Trump returned to the White House.
The Republican is a fervent supporter from the lethal injections. During his electoral campaign the tycoon asked to extend the campo of application of the death penalty, in particular to immigrants convicted of murder of American citizens and ai drug traffickers e of beings humans. The latest federal executions occurred at the very end of Trump's presidency. After a pause of 17 years oldbetween July 14, 2020 and January 16, 2021 were executed 13 condemnedmore than the ten previous administrations combined.
The death penalty in the US maintained in 23 states, abolished in 23 others
About 2,300 prisoners on death row in the United States, alone 40 they had been condemned by federal justice. Twenty-seven US states they maintain the worth it deathwhile others 23 and the District of Columbia have abolished. This year all have been carried out 25 executionsmaintaining historically low levels. The 76% of these executions occurred in four states: Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma e Texas.
