“We’re going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts,” he added.
President Joe Biden had campaigned on passing legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level, but pulled back on that in office.
Biden’s aides say he supports death row inmates serving life sentences without probation or parole.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department under Biden and Garland has not sought the death penalty in federal cases that could have warranted it, and has even withdrawn death penalty sentences in about two dozen cases that it had inherited.
There are currently 40 inmates, all men, on federal death row, according to the nonpartisan Death Penalty Information Center.
Persons:
Donald Trump, ” Trump, “ We’re, ”, Trump, Yasmin Cader, Grover Cleveland, William Barr, “, Joe Biden, General Merrick Garland, Biden’s, Garland, Lee Kovarsky, Biden, Kovarsky, “ they’re, can’t, Ruth Friedman, ” Friedman, Friedman, Robert Roberson, Robert Dunham, ” Dunham, Dunham
Organizations:
Center for Justice, Equality, U.S, Department, Biden, Boston Marathon, University of Texas School of Law, Punishment, Trump, Trump’s, Federal, Habeas, Republican, Democratic, National Registry, ACLU
Locations:
Alabama, South Carolina, Pittsburgh, Texas