The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court precedents that limit the authority of State and Federal governments to impose capital punishment.

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out executions.

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders of law enforcement officers and crimes committed by people residing in the country illegally,

The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.

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.

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on the death penalty Monday, directing the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out executions.

Trump during his first term, the most of any president in modern history. Trump had often suggested on the campaign trail that the death penalty should be imposed for drug and human traffickers