President Donald Trump is ordering his attorney general to dramatically reverse Biden-era death penalty policy by seeking capital punishment for all qualifying crimes committed by unlawfully residing immigrants or in which law enforcement officers are murdered.
In an executive order issued Monday, Trump directed what would be a significant expansion on federal pursuit of death penalty, which was only authorized by Biden administration’s Justice Department in one new case.
The order criticizes the Biden DOJ for its moratorium on federal executions and former President Joe Biden personally for sparing the lives of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates.
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