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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 ...
A look at where the various court cases against President-elect Donald Trump stand, and how they may — or may not — be affected by his taking the oath of office on Jan. 20. ... defendants in ...
Trump's efforts to expand the death penalty to crimes that do not involve murder are likely to face legal challenges. In 2008, for example, the Supreme Court ruled that those convicted of raping ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct his Justice Department to "vigorously pursue" the death penalty to protect Americans from "violent rapists, murderers, and monsters ...
In the late 1980s, Senator Alfonse D'Amato, from New York State, sponsored a bill to make certain federal drug crimes eligible for the death penalty as he was frustrated by the lack of a death penalty in his home state. [9] The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 restored the death penalty under federal law for drug offenses and some types of murder. [10]
The most serious charges against Trump and Nauta carried a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. There were no mandatory minimum penalties. Trump was arraigned on June 13, 2023, [ 15 ] Nauta was arraigned on July 12, [ 16 ] and both were arraigned on additional charges on August 10.
Trump was indicted on state charges in a March 2023 indictment in New York. He faced 34 criminal charges of falsifying business records in the first degree related to payments made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. [19] [21] The trial began on April 15, 2024; Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts on May 30, 2024. [22]
Thirteen of those executions came during Trump's first term in office. The individual states executed 1,542 condemned inmates between 1977 and 2022, according to federal data.