President-elect Donald Trump has promised to expand the list of charges that would make a convicted offender eligible for federal execution to include child rapists, illegal immigrants who kill U.S. citizens and police, and those convicted of drug and human trafficking.

“These are terrible, terrible, horrible people who are responsible for death, carnage and crime all over the country,” Trump stated in November of 2022 when he announced his candidacy. “We’re going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts,” he added.

Trump has long positioned himself as a border hawk and has promised he will overhaul the federal justice system to increase penalties for migrant crime. Two days before reclaiming the White House, Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Macon, Georgia where he called for the death penalty for illegal immigrants who murder U.S. citizens.

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