JAKARTA - Former president of the United States and Republican presidential candidateDonald Trump has said he will re-impose the death penalty on certain crimes under federal law, once he is elected president.

"Of course, yes. I will execute drug kingpins," Trump said in an interview with the Daily Mail, as reported by Sputnik, Friday, August 30.

He issued the statement when asked if he would reimpose the death penalty on the first day of serving as US president.

Trump also said he plans to continue his execution policies against child rapists, police killers, and other violent killers - if he is elected president.

In particular, he considers the biggest danger to the US posed by drug dealers, who can kill hundreds of people who are addicted to drugs. Therefore, according to Trump, drug dealers deserve to be executed.

In July 2021, Attorney General Total Garland banned the death penalty for crimes under federal law after Donald Trump while serving president in 2019 resumed scheduling the death penalty.

In the last year of Trump's term of office, the US government carried out 13 executions


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