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President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his pledge to "vigorously pursue" the death penalty, taking aim at President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of nearly all federal death row prisoners. Trump campaigned on expanding the federal death penalty following his first term, during which his Justice Department put 13 federal inmates to death — a high that had not been seen since Grover Cleveland's presidency in the late 1800s. Biden, meanwhile, is contending with criticism for his death row commutations, not only from his political adversaries but law enforcement groups and some families of victims. The daughter of Donna Major, one of two South Carolina bank employees killed by federal death row inmate Brandon Council in 2017, slammed Council's commutation as being unfair and an "abuse of power." I am begging you to finish the job, not only with the three men left on federal death row, but also with those on the military death row," Risher said.

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☆ Trump says he will direct Justice Department to ‘vigorously pursue the death penalty’
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-24 | by ( Aaron Pellish | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct the Department of Justice to “vigorously pursue the death penalty” after President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 federal inmates to life in prison. “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. Biden’s clemency decisions cannot be reversed when Trump takes office, but the president-elect’s Justice Department could resume seeking the death penalty in future cases. In his speech launching his 2024 presidential campaign, he pledged to seek the death penalty for drug dealers. Biden has no power to stop those death sentences.

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Biden commutes dozens of death row sentences. Donald Trump reacts to people saying Elon Musk is in charge. Biden commute dozens of death row sentences to life without paroleMichael Conroy / APPresident Joe Biden announced that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 inmates, leaving only three people on death row in federal prisons. Execution rehearsals have also increased at the prison, where almost all federal death row inmates are incarcerated, in the lead-up to Trump’s inauguration, according to the same sources. No federal inmates have been executed during Biden’s presidency.

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 inmates, leaving only three people on death row in federal prisons. As a presidential candidate, Biden argued in 2019 that "we must eliminate the death penalty." Beyond federal death sentences, about half of states allow the death penalty. More than two dozen people have been executed this year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. He has also called for the death penalty for "any migrant who kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer."

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☆ Biden commutes most federal death row sentences to life in prison before Trump takes office
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-23 | by ( Sam Fossum | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is taking 37 people off federal death row to serve out life sentences behind bars — a decision that leaves only three federal prisoners awaiting execution when President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month. “Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole,” Biden announced in a statement released Monday. President Biden this month also granted clemency to roughly 1,500 people in the biggest single-day act of clemency in modern history. Opponents of capital punishment and top Biden allies such as Sen. Chris Coons had been encouraging the president to consider commuting federal death penalty sentences. Trump has voiced support for imposing the death penalty on convicted human traffickers and drug dealers, while also saying he would seek to have prosecutors pursue the death penalty for migrants who kill American citizens or anyone who kills a law enforcement officer.

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☆ How the federal death penalty could change under a Donald Trump presidency
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Dakin Andone | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The president-elect voiced support for imposing the death penalty on convicted human traffickers and drug dealers, while also saying he would seek to have prosecutors pursue the death penalty for migrants who kill American citizens or anyone who kills a law enforcement officer. It also wants the federal death penalty broadened to include people convicted of sexually abusing children, an application found by the US Supreme Court to be unconstitutional. “We saw what he’s capable of,” Abraham Bonowitz, executive director of the abolitionist Death Penalty Action, said of Trump. The organization does not take a position for or against the death penalty but has been critical of its administration. Federal executions were rare – before TrumpThe federal government and the US military both retain the death penalty, as do 27 states – though executions are paused in six of those states by executive action, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

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☆ Highest court in Massachusetts to hear arguments in Karen Read’s bid to dismiss murder charge
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Read’s attorneys argue she is being framed and that other law enforcement officers are responsible for O’Keefe’s death. A judge declared a mistrial in June after finding jurors couldn’t reach an agreement. The defense also arguing that the judge abruptly announced the mistrial in court without first asking each juror to confirm their conclusions about each count. The court never asked for counsel’s views, or even mentioned the word mistrial.”In August, a judge ruled Read can be retried on those charges. The defense portrayed Read as the victim, saying O’Keefe was actually killed inside Albert’s home and then dragged outside.

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Circuit Court of Appeals that two jurors had lied about whether they discussed the case on social media before being seated for his 2015 trial, an argument the U.S. Supreme Court did not address when it reinstated Tsarnaev's death sentence last year. Circuit Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson said it was "hard to understand" how the facts did not raise a potential claim of juror misconduct, and U.S. Circuit Judge William Kayatta questioned why the judge did not probe further. The Justice Department is defending Tsarnaev's death sentence despite President Joe Biden's opposition to capital punishment and a moratorium on federal executions issued by Attorney General Merrick Garland in July 2021. The case then returned to the 1st Circuit to address other grounds for appeal that neither court had yet to resolve.

☆ White gunman who massacred 10 Black people willing to plead guilty to federal charges to avoid death penalty, lawyer says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The white gunman who pleaded guilty to state charges in the massacre of 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket is willing to plead guilty to federal charges if spared the death penalty, his lawyer said in court Friday. Payton Gendron, 19, pleaded guilty last month to state charges of murder and hate-motivated terrorism in the May 14 mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market. His guilty plea in the state case guarantees he will spend the rest of his life in prison. But he still faces separate federal hate crime charges that could result in a death sentence if convicted. Defense attorney Sonya Zoghlin said Gendron is prepared to enter a guilty plea in federal court in exchange for a life sentence.

☆ Trump could testify in tax fraud trial of Trump organization. How to keep the jury unbiased.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Jeffrey Abramson | Jeffrey Abramson Is A Professor Of Government Emeritus At The University Of Texas At Austin | Author Of | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Jury selection began Monday in the Manhattan district attorney’s prosecution of the Trump Organization for tax fraud. The trial judge may be tempted to eliminate anyone who acknowledges having formed some opinions before trial about Trump personally or the evidence reported in the media against the Trump Organization. But in March, the Supreme Court reinstated Tsarnaev’s death sentence, arguably changing jury selection for the worse. In the Black Lives Matter era, we have seen several high-profile trials that challenged the search for impartial jurors. And it’s not a standard that should be employed as jurors are vetted in the New York criminal trial of the Trump Organization.

☆ U.S. to seek death penalty against accused New York bike path killer
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the New York City truck attack is seen in this handout photo released November 1, 2017. In a letter filed late Friday in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors said Attorney General Merrick Garland "decided to continue to seek the death penalty" against Sayfullo Saipov, and that they notified the defendant's lawyers and victims. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe decision followed Garland's July 2021 moratorium on federal executions while the Department of Justice reviews its use of the death penalty. The Justice Department under Garland has defended the death penalty in some cases. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York Editing by Marguerita ChoyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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