The Trump administrations move to start executing prisoners on federal death row tees up yet another divide between the President and Democrats who are nearly united in opposition
Trump has been a public advocate of the death penalty for decades. And his embrace of the rhetoric of criminal justice reformers hasn't softened his view on putting prisoners to death.He took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the state to reinstate its death penalty when five black and Latino teenagers were charged with raping a woman in Central Park in the 1990s. The teens were later exonerated in that crime and received settlements from the city.
Ava DuVernay tells the true story of the Central Park Five 14:34He's endorsed imposing the death penalty for some drug dealers, although the Supreme Court has ruled against capital punishment for federal offenders who did not commit murder. He's pushed China to impose the death penalty for crimes involving fentanyl and praised the Philippines strongman Rodrigo Duterte for his drug war, which has included extrajudicial killings and vigilante justice.
Trump hints at death penalty for drug dealers 01:26California recently joined multiple states in placing a moratorium on the death penalty and new Gov. Gavin Newsom had the death chamber at San Quentin dismantled. Half the states have some kind of death penalty, 21 do not and four have governor-induced moratoriums, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.The Trump administration's move could put the death penalty back into the political conversation.
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