Its not just that Trump openly campaigned during this presidential election on expanding the use of capital punishment.
Now, advocates are left simply praying that Biden will step up and fulfill his promises.
Theres a lot of fear on federal death row, Halls lawyer Angela Elleman tellsRolling Stone.
President Joe Biden (left) and President-elect Donald TrumpPablo PORCIUNCULA/AFP/Getty Images; Saul Martinez/The Washington Post/Getty Images
They were real human beings to all of my clients who were, one by one, executed.
Its like if 13 of your friends were murdered in one year.
He already pardoned two turkeys as well as his son, Hunter.
Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to end the federal death penalty, businessman Richard Branson tellsRolling Stone.
He was one of 100 businesspeople to write to Biden on Monday.
I appreciate that he never quite had the necessary majorities to make that happen through an act of Congress.
[Biden and his team] know that it can happen again.
The whole rest of the country has turned away from the death penalty.
Executions are down, and the president-elect wants to ramp all that up.
Neither representatives for Biden nor Trump replied to several requests for comment.
An all-time low
The death penalty is older than America itself, imported by European settlers.
Nevertheless, Trump is, predictably, unmoved.
Trump lost to Biden in late 2020, and there was no more time for the killing.
The killing spree, as you call it, is returning, a Trump adviser tellsRolling Stone.
Theres a new sheriff in town, and he doesnt think murderers and rapists should get off easy.
And it will return, likely, rather soon.
That is, unless the outgoing Democratic president does something about it.
That is a lot of mistakes already, she says.
So how do we know that were not making more mistakes by just constantly killing people?
Why not give them life without possibility of parole?
So if anything goes wrong, it’s possible for you to fix that.
You cant fix the death penalty when you kill someone.
The man who allegedly pulled the trigger was given life.
We had to stay in place from the Fourth Circuit.
But I want to save his life.
I think he has a life worth saving.
As for Butler-Smith, she just wants to know what happened to love in this country.
We dont love each other anymore, she says.
Biden, like, like commute their sentences.
And if any of them are innocent, give them the opportunity to prove that.
