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Day One: Trump Will End Federal Moratorium on Executions, Floats Death Penalty for Major Drug Dealers and Cop Killers

By Eric Bolling Staff

RACINE, WISCONSIN - JUNE 18: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Festival Park on June 18, 2024 in Racine, Wisconsin. This is Trump's third visit to Wisconsin, a key swing state in 2024. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

According to a report from The Daily Mail, Donald Trump will make it a Day One priority to end the Justice Department’s moratorium on executions; “I would have executions on major drug dealers,” he said.

Trump continued, saying he would also consider the death penalty for “the raping of a child [and] the killing of a police officer” — “I would have executions on the people that violently kill people.”

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From The Daily Mail:

Trump’s administration restored the use of the federal death penalty in 2019. And 13 federal death row inmates were executed, before Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a halt in July 2021.

Some 27 states have the death penalty on their books, although seven have also suspended executions.

Trump has brought up the theme of tougher penalties for a range of crimes on the campaign trail to portray himself as the candidate of law and order.

Last week he was at the border with Mexico where he highlighted the damage done by cartels and smugglers, and met with grieving mothers.

“We have people coming into this country. I just left a number of them last week, as you saw. at the border, where their daughters were killed, their sons were killed” he said.

“Their sons were killed by thugs and migrants coming into our country, and they viciously … they were viciously and violently killed and stuffed into garbage cans.”

Trump said that drug dealers responsible for hundreds of deaths should face the death penalty.

“The average drug dealer kills 500 people during that person’s lifetime. I would have no problem with that. If you’re going to stop the drug epidemic, you’re going to have to have a death penalty,’ he added.

More over at The Daily Mail:



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