Trump, death penalty

Trump targets Supreme Court precedents in new death penalty order
The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents that limit executions.
Trump suggests state death penalty for those commuted by Biden. Is that possible?
Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take all lawful and appropriate action to ensure that these offenders are imprisoned in conditions consistent with the monstrosity of their crimes and the threats they pose.”
Trump’s New Order to Expand the Death Penalty Misses Key Details
The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, legal experts say.
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'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
Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht After Urging Death Penalty For Drug Dealers
In a move that has sparked debate, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, who had been serving two life sentences plus 40 years for enabling the illegal trade of drugs and other illicit goods.
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,
Donald Trump Poised for 'Execution Spree' After Taking Office
Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday. Just hours after his inauguration, Trump signed a executive order that directs the attorney general to seek the death penalty in appropriate federal cases and to help preserve capital punishment in states that have had difficulty obtaining lethal injection drugs.
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.
Maricopa County prosecutors pursue death penalty against Paul Jon Thomas in pair of deaths
Maricopa prosecutors are pursuing the death penalty against a man accused of killing his ex-wife and another man last year.
State seeks death penalty, grand jury indicts man for murder of bike-riding teen
Bryan Herrera, 16, was shot and killed while riding his bicycle in Miami just a few days before Christmas in 2012.
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Prosecutors consider death penalty for suspect in Miami teen’s 2012 killing
The family of Bryan Herrera, a 16-year-old who was shot and killed while riding his bike in Miami in 2012, appeared in court ...
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Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid “evolving standards of decency”
Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...
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Death penalty by firing squad proposed for convicted corrupt gov't officials
A House lawmaker filed a bill proposing the death penalty for public officials convicted of corruption, with execution by ...
Killer wife's thongs paraded in court - and it could save her from death penalty
Supreme Court justices have sent Brenda Andrew's death penalty conviction back to a lower court for reconsideration after ...
RG Kar murder case: CBI to seek death penalty for convict Sanjay Roy in Calcutta high court
The Sealdah court rejected CBI's plea seeking death penalty for Roy, saying the crime did not fall under the "rarest of the ...
Mining corruption case in Indonesia sparks misinformation about death penalty
As Indonesian prosecutors prepared to appeal the jail sentence of a high-profile businessman which critics said was too ...