Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting Public Safety
Reverses the Biden-era moratorium on federal executions and directs the Attorney General to take all steps necessary to resume carrying out death sentences. Orders the DOJ to pursue the death penalty in cases involving the murder of law enforcement officers and certain categories of violent crime.
Section by Section
What each section does, and how they differ.
Directs Attorney General to pursue capital punishment faithfully and counter politicians and judges obstructing execution of capital sentences.
U.S. policy is to ensure capital punishment laws are respected and faithfully implemented and to counteract obstruction of capital sentences.
Attorney General shall pursue death penalty for crimes of severe character; prioritize capital charges for law enforcement murder and capital crimes by illegal aliens.
Attorney General shall ensure each state has sufficient lethal injection drugs and shall approve or deny pending state lethal injection certifications.
Attorney General shall seek overruling of Supreme Court precedents limiting state and federal authority to impose capital punishment.
Attorney General shall prioritize violent crime prosecution and coordinate with state and local law enforcement to dismantle transnational criminal activity.
Standard boilerplate: preserves existing agency authority, conditions the order on appropriations, and creates no enforceable private rights.