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With just weeks left in office, US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates - potentially thwarting President-elect Donald Trump's plans to expand ...
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to “vigorously pursue the death penalty” for the country’s most heinous criminals — after President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 mass ...
F ive days before Joe Biden was sworn in as President and effectively stopped federal executions, the Trump Administration executed its 13th federal inmate, Dustin Higgs. Higgs was sentenced to ...
"President Trump's executive order demanding capital charges for the murder of law enforcement officers or capital crimes by illegal aliens is unnecessary bluster, because the death penalty ...
No federal executions occurred between 1972 and 2001. From 2001 to 2003, three people were executed by the federal government. No further federal executions occurred from March 18, 2003, up to July 14, 2020, when they resumed under President Donald Trump, during which 13 death row inmates were executed in the last 6 months of his first presidency.
The first confirmed juvenile to be executed in the United States was Thomas Granger, executed for buggery involving several animals, including "a mare, a cow, two goats, divers sheep, two calves, and a turkey." The execution took place on September 8, when Granger was 16 or 17 years old; prior to the execution, the animals involved in Granger's ...
(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 Americans on federal death row on Monday. Biden’s actions mean those convicted will now face life in prison ...
During his final six months as president, Donald Trump’s administration carried out an unprecedented execution spree, killing 13 people. When President Joe Biden replaced Trump in 2021, he ...