The order directs the Justice Department to not only seek the death penalty in appropriate federal cases, but also to help preserve it in the United States.
US President Donald Trump signed the death penalty order. The Attorney General has been tasked with helping states obtain lethal injection drugs, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
The order was issued just hours after Trump returned to the White House. The order directs the Justice Department to not only seek the death penalty in appropriate federal cases, but also to help preserve it in the United States, which is struggling to maintain an adequate supply of lethal injection drugs.
Trump has ordered the attorney general to seek the death penalty in the killings of a law enforcement officer, as well as mass crimes “committed by an illegal alien who is present in this country.”
According to the publication, the Trump administration, in its first term, carried out 13 federal executions, more than under any other president. In his speech, the Republican also called for the death penalty for those caught selling drugs, and later promised to kill drug smugglers.
It can be remembered that the President of the US, Donald Trump, on Monday, January 20, signed his first orders in the presidential office at the Capitol.
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Source: korrespondent
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