In a post on the social network Truth, Donald Trump declared that “as soon as he is sworn in he will ask the Department of Justice to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from rapists, murderers and violent monsters.”
Death penalty for violent criminals. It is one of the objectives of Donald Trump as soon as he is sworn in and officially assumed the office of President of the United States, the next January 20th.
In a post on the Truth social media site, the MAGA leader said he “will ask the Department of Justice to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from rapists, murderers and violent monsters.” The communication arrived a few hours later the commutation of the death sentences granted by Joe Biden to 37 federal prisoners.
“We will once again be a nation of law and order!”, wrote the tycoon, who now aims for the death penalty for “violent criminals”.
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The decision of Biden, who according to human rights organizations is the president who has granted the highest number of commutations of capital sentences, did not please Trump, who had harshly criticized the outgoing president's choice.
“Joe Biden just commuted the death sentences of 37 of our country's worst killers,” he wrote in a post after the decision was made public. “When you hear the actions of each of them, you will not believe that he did it. It makes no sense. Relatives and friends are further devastated,” he added.
Trump will not be able to cancel Biden's commutations, but many fear a negative change in the American execution system. In fact, several times during the electoral campaign, the tycoon had said that he wanted to broaden the scope of application of the capital punishment to certain categories of convicted criminals such as immigrants who killed American citizens, drug and human traffickers.
As mentioned, the commutations sought by Biden affected several federal prisoners while three men remained on death row. According to numbers from the Death Penalty Information Center, a total of 25 capital punishments have been carried out in the USA, in nine different states.
For this reason, Sharon Risher, president of the board of directors of Death Penalty Action, asked the president to also commute the sentences of the three. “You can't classify the victims, Mr. President,” he said in an interview with Newsweek. “Please finish the job, not only with the three remaining men on federal death row, but also with those on military death row. There is still time. Finish the job,” he reiterated.
Specifically, those excluded from the outgoing president's measure are all three perpetrators of attacks, including Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, responsible for the murders at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
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