President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he will direct the Department of Justice to pursue the death penalty for “violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.”
Trump made the promise in response to President Joe Biden commuting the sentences of 37 convicted murderers on Monday. The president-elect previously blasted Biden for commuting the killers’ sentences, saying that it “makes no sense.”
“As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters. We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Among those whose sentences were commuted by Biden was a man who sexually assaulted and stabbed two young girls to death north of Chicago in 2005. Four years later, the killer struck again and strangled a…
