January 22, 2025 – On Monday, President Donald Trump issued the following Executive Order: Restoring The Death Penalty And Protecting Public Safety By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday aims to reverse the long

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

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.

The newly inaugurated president's directive fulfills a key part of Project 2025's right-wing mandate for his administration.

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,

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,

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to strengthen the use of the death penalty.