Donald Trump Proposal For Death Penalty For Drug Crimes Would Have Executed People He’s Pardoned Like Alice Marie Johnson
Donald Trump contradicted himself in an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier. The former president stated that he would like to execute people convicted of drug crimes, despite previously granting pardons for these offenses and supporting the First Step Act. Trump signed the First Step Act into law in 2018, which aims to reform the federal prison system and develop a new risk and needed assessment system. Those who have been incarcerated in federal prison facilities are eligible to appeal their case using the First Step Act, which was a major bipartisan achievement toward criminal justice refo...