US EditionTrump signs death penalty order directing attorney general to help states get lethal injection drugs
- President Donald Trump signed an execution order on the death penalty, directing the Attorney General to "take all necessary and lawful action" to ensure states have lethal injection drugs for executions.
- Trump stated that "politicians and judges who oppose capital punishment have defied and subverted the laws of our country."
- A moratorium on federal executions was in place since 2021, with only three defendants remaining on federal death row after Democratic President Joe Biden converted 37 sentences to life in prison.
- The Trump administration executed 13 federal prisoners during Trump's first term, more than any president in modern history.
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Trump reinstates federal executions: stop the moratorium in force since 2021. Who are the inmates on death row
The moratorium on federal executions, which has been in effect since 2021, ends. Donald Trump gave the green light in one of the first executive orders, and already in 2019, during his first term, he had decided to pass the same measure, reinstating federal executions after 15 years. Trump has thus asked the Minister of Justice to “take all necessary and legal actions” to ensure that States have enough doses for lethal injections to carry out ca…
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.”
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