Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...

There are a lot of reasons that the death penalty is almost never imposed anymore. As a growing cadre of experts has demonstrated, the death penalty is hugely and uniquely expensive to apply and doesn ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the federal death penalty Jan. 20, among the first actions of his second term, directing the attorney general to "pursue the death penalty for all ...

FBI Unified Crime reports show that states with ... 110 nations over a period of 74 years and found that the death penalty does not deter criminals.[10] One reason why the death penalty might ...

That remains the most recent poll asking what is perhaps the most revealing question about public opinion of the death penalty. Lott argued racial bias does ... to deter death penalty crimes?

However, only three individuals remain on federal death row after former President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 people on Dec. 23 and instead sentenced them to lif ...

Death penalty models killing, is irreversible, does not deter crime, targets the poor and minorities, may be "cruel and unusual punishment," and is more costly than life in prison.