The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, legal experts say.

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take all lawful and appropriate action to ensure that these offenders are imprisoned in conditions consistent with the monstrosity of their crimes and the threats they pose.”

Trump falsely claimed that restoring the federal death penalty was necessary in order to deter violent crimes.

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

In the order signed in the first hours of his return to the White House, Trump said “politicians and judges who oppose capital punishment have defied and subverted the laws of our country.”

Death penalty opponents fear President Donald Trump is poised to start an "execution spree" after returning to the White House on Monday. Just hours after his inauguration, Trump signed a executive order that directs the attorney general to seek the death penalty in appropriate federal cases and to help preserve capital punishment in states that have had difficulty obtaining lethal injection drugs.

If there’s one thing Donald Trump promised ahead of his second term as President of the United States, it was ruthless efficiency as it pertains to fulfilling the promises that got him elected. As such,