Donald Trump signaled he would resume
Federal, executions if he won and make
More people eligible for capital, punishment, including child rapists, migrants who kill, U,S , citizens and, law
Enforcement officers and those convinced
Of drug and human traffickin,
Those are terrible terrible, horrible people who are responsible for death carnage and crime all over the country
Trump said of traffickers when he announced his 2024 candidate, we. re, going to be asking, everyone who sells drugs, gets caught, to receive the death penalty for their heinous, acts, he added
While it remains unclear how Trump
Would act to expand the death penalty, anti, death penalty groups and criminal justice reform advocates say they are taking his claims seriously, nothing the
Spree of Federal executions that occurred
During his first term,
We, re, going fight this tooth,and nail, and we, re,going to seek to uphold the
Constitutional,principal that do not call for this expansion said Yasmin cader an
ACLU,dm deputy legal director and the director,of its Trone center for justice
Equality,
At the tail end of Trump's first term 13 Federal inmates were put to death-even as the pandemic led states to halt executions because of Covid conditions, in
Prisons, the cases, Included the first woman executed by the federal government in nearly years, the youngest person based on the age when the crime occurred 18 a the time of this arrest and the only native American on federal death row,
No president had overseen as many federal execution since grover Cleveland in the late 1800S,and the U.S government and not executed anyone for more than 15 year's until Trump revived the practice his then-attorney general, William barr had sida that the federal government owed it to victims to carry out the sentence imposed by the the justice system Trump's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment worldnewer
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