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Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty, setting up legal challenges in second term

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At the tail end of Trump ’s first term, 13 federal inmates were put to death.

No president had overseen as many federal executions since Grover Cleveland in the late 1800s .

There are currently 40 inmates, all men, on federal death row, according to the nonpartisan Death Penalty Information Center .

The Supreme Court , with its 6-3 conservative majority, has shown it will generally back the death penalty.

But Friedman said it’s possible that lawmakers from both parties could speak out if they are uncomfortable with how the issue progresses.

Exonerations registry: Child sexual assault cases are the second most frequent charge to result in no crime wrongful convictions, behind cases in which police planted drugs on defendants.