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

President of the United States of America Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the death penalty. The Attorney General has been instructed to assist states in obtaining lethal injection drugs,

The order directs the U.S. attorney general to actively pursue the death penalty in federal cases, particularly for murders of law enforcement officers and crimes committed by people residing in the country illegally,

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.

How Trump could implement his death penalty agenda - Trump campaigned heavily on expanding the death penalty and has asked attorney general to help states obtain lethal injection drugs

In the order signed in the first hours of his return to the White House, Trump said “politicians and judges who oppose capital punishment have defied and subverted the laws of our country.”

President Donald Trump is ordering his attorney general to dramatically reverse Biden-era death penalty policy by seeking capital punishment for all qualifying crimes committed by unlawfully residing immigrants or in which law enforcement officers are murdered.

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday. Just hours after his inauguration, Trump signed a executive order that directs the attorney general to seek the death penalty in appropriate federal cases and to help preserve capital punishment in states that have had difficulty obtaining lethal injection drugs.

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on the death penalty Monday, directing the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out executions.