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Trump promises death penalty for ‘rapists, murderers’ after Biden pardons

# US president-elect Donald Trump says he will step up the use of the death penalty during his second term in office and promised to go after what he refers to as rapists, murderers, and monsters. Trump’s announcement came after outgoing US president Joe Biden used his presidential pardon powers to reduce the sentences of nearly all federal prisoners on death row to life imprisonment without parole. Trump said as soon as he is inaugurated, he will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children.