"President Donald Trump has made capital punishment one of the centerpieces of his criminal justice agenda. In an inflammatory executive order issued on Jan. 20, the day he took office, Trump claimed that only capital punishment can bring justice, condemned President Joe Biden's moratorium on federal executions, and denounced politicians and judges for defying and subverting the laws of our country."
"In 1989, as New York City was reeling from the Central Park Five case in which a female jogger was raped and beaten, five Black teenagers were charged. Trump took out full page ads in several newspapers demanding the reimposition of New York's death penalty and use it to execute the rapists. But the young men were innocent. They were exonerated two decades later based on DNA evidence."
"During the final months of Trump's first term in office, between July 2020 and January 2021, he oversaw a flurry of 13 federal executions, the last of which occurred just five days before he left office. This series of executions made Trump the most prolific execution president in over a century and broke with a 130-year-old precedent of pausing federal executions during a presidential transition."
On July 24, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the Justice Department is suing New York City over sanctuary laws. President Donald Trump made capital punishment central to his justice agenda, issuing an order on Jan. 20 saying only capital punishment can bring justice and condemning President Joe Biden's moratorium on federal executions. Trump's support for the death penalty dates to 1989, when he demanded its reimposition after the Central Park Five arrests; the five were later exonerated. From July 2020 to January 2021, Trump oversaw 13 federal executions, breaking a transition precedent. Bondi ordered prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione.
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