Trump executive order calls for sweeping expansion of the death penalty
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 Issues Executive Order Restoring Federal Death Penalty
Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.
Trump Signs Pro-Death-Penalty Order, Calls Capital Punishment an ‘Essential Tool’
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,
Trump signs death penalty order directing attorney general to help states get lethal injection drugs
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.
Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking To Expand Use Of Death Penalty
The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.
Trump Directs Death Penalty for Police Killers, Illegal Migrants
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.
Donald Trump says he will direct Justice Department to ‘pursue death penalty’, slams Biden's move
President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions.
Trump signs order to ensure states have enough lethal injection drugs
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.
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Trump's Death Penalty Executive Order Aims To Expand Execution
One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday aims to reverse the long national decline in executions and provide federal support for states to carry out the death penalty.
Trump signs executive order on death penalty: What will change
President of the United States of America Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the death penalty. The Attorney General has been instructed to assist states in obtaining lethal injection drugs,
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Trump's executive order resumes executions, after Biden dialed them back
The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...
Trump rolls out death penalty laws in slew of executive orders after being sworn in as US president: Live
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Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners
Opponents of the death penalty had urged President Biden to take this step, given the number of executions that took place ...
Biden commutes sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates to life in prison without possibility of parole
President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences​. Their sentences will be ...
Idaho considers archaic execution practice as 'primary method' of killing prisoners after lethal injection fails
Republican lawmakers in Idaho are considering going back to what some consider an archaic execution method because of a ...
Bishop pleads with Trump to ‘have mercy’ on migrants, LGBT+; 22 states sue to stop bid to end birthright citizenship: Live
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A Trump Executive Order Sets Out What Could Be a Road Map for Retribution
The order is titled “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” but it asserts that the Biden administration might ...