'Vigorously pursue': Trump vows to ramp up executions after Biden commuted death sentences
Raw StoryDonald Trump vowed to "vigorously pursue the death penalty" immediately upon his inauguration. The president-elect reacted to President Joe Biden commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 federal prisoners on death row with a social media attack Tuesday morning, saying Biden's decision "makes no sense." Trump, who is a convicted felon himself, posted a screenshot to a New York Postreport whose headline read that Biden commuted the "death sentences of child killers and mass murderers 2 days before Christmas," providing lurid descriptions of their crimes and photos of their victims. "Biden, who opposes the death penalty, lowered each of the 37 sentences to life in prison without parole," the report stated. "The retiring president on Dec. 1 issued a blanket pardon for his own son Hunter Biden, 54 — wiping the slate of his June conviction of three federal gun felonies and his September guilty plea to $1.4 million in tax fraud from foreign business dealings in which he repeatedly involved his father," the Post reported.