President Trump’s call this week for the suspected New York truck attacker to be given the death penalty fit a long-standing pattern. Trump has been a staunch supporter of capital punishment for decades, calling for death sentences to be handed down time and time again.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Trump remains a staunch supporter of the death penalty, but many Americans are souring on it
By Mark Berman
November 2, 2017 at 3:35 p.m. EDT