Trump vows to use DOJ to enact death penalty after Biden sentence commutations
By
Rachel Schilke
December 24, 2024 1:51 pm
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President-elect Donald Trump promised to pursue the death penalty against “violent rapists, murderers, and monsters” once he takes control of the White House.
Trump’s vow came hours after President Joe Biden‘s controversial decision to commute the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners, which the president-elect’s team previously called a “slap in the face to the victims” as some of the prisoners committed horrific crimes against women and children.
“As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!”
Among those whose sentences were commuted by Biden were Brandon Basham, 43, and Chadrick Fulks, 47, who kidnapped, raped, and murdered two women after escaping prison. Thomas Sanders, 57, murdered a mother in front of her 12-year-old daughter, kidnapped the child, then murdered her four days later.
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