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Ohio death penalty may be reintroduced after Trump’s executive order
President Donald Trump wants to “restore the death penalty” through an executive order he signed earlier this week.
Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking To Expand Use Of Death Penalty
The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.
Trump Issues Executive Order Restoring Federal Death Penalty
Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.
Trump’s New Order to Expand the Death Penalty Misses Key Details
The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, legal experts say.
Trump executive order calls for sweeping expansion of the death penalty
The executive order calls on the attorney general to “take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court precedents that limit the authority of State and Federal governments to impose capital punishment.
Trump, bipartisan cohort at odds over death penalty in Ohio
Two Miami Valley lawmakers were part of a bipartisan cohort Tuesday touting legislation to prohibit the use of state funds for assisted suicide and abolish the death penalty in Ohio, just a week after President Donald Trump's executive order to fully restore the practice nationally.
Bipartisan effort to end death penalty in Ohio returns
Democrats and Republicans in the Ohio Statehouse have again joined to try to stop the death penalty in the state. Democratic Minority Leader Nickie Antonio, D-Lakewood, and Sen. Steve Huffman, R-Tipp City,
Trump signs death penalty order directing attorney general to help states get lethal injection drugs
President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping execution order on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take ...
Trump’s Most Shockingly Ambitious Executive Order
The order is a reminder that Americans live in two different worlds regarding the government’s use of the ultimate punishment ...
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Trump's Death Penalty Executive Order Aims To Expand Execution
In an executive order titled "Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety," Trump reversed a Biden-era moratorium on federal executions and instructed the attorney general to ...
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Trump's executive order resumes executions, after Biden dialed them back
The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this ...
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Trump Signs Pro-Death-Penalty Order, Calls Capital Punishment an ‘Essential Tool’
The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders ...
Trump suggests state death penalty for those commuted by Biden. Is that possible?
Legal experts weigh in as Trump reinstates the federal death penalty. Getty Images/iStockphoto Among the slew of ...