President-elect Donald Trump criticized President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life in prison without parole. Trump vowed to direct the Justice Department to pursue the death penalty 'as soon as I am inaugurated' for 'violent rapists, murderers, and monsters'.
President-elect Donald Trump says he'll “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 executionsTrump criticized Biden’s decision on Monday to change the sentences of 37 of the 40 condemned people to life in prison without parole, arguing that it was senseless and insulted the families of their victims.
He highlighted the cases of two men who were on federal death row for slaying a woman and a girl, had admitted to killing more and had their sentences commuted by Biden. Most Americans have historically supported the death penalty for people convicted of murder, according to decades of annual polling by Gallup, but support has declined over the past few decades. About half of Americans were in favor in an October poll, while roughly 7 in 10 Americans backed capital punishment for murderers in 2007.
“That would literally take decades to unfold. It’s not something that is going to happen overnight,” Berman said.
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