Meanwhile, Bondi also will end the moratorium on federal executions and order that federal prosecutors at the Department of Justice, including U.S. attorney’s offices, seek the death penalty when appropriate —specifically with a focus on violent drug trafficking crimes. Bondi also ordered that the Justice Department "re-evaluate instances of the prior administration electing not to seek the death penalty." Bondi also is expected to rescind any DOJ policies that are "not sufficiently in line with President Trump’s death penalty executive order." The move represents a major reversal from the Justice Department’s view of the death penalty under the Biden administration. In 2021, Biden allowed the DOJ to issue a moratorium on federal executions. In December 2024, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 criminals on federal death row, which President
Donald Trump, in his executive order on the death penalty, described as the "most vile and sadistic rapists, child molesters, and murderers on Federal death." Bondi said she is now also directing the Justice Department to achieve justice for the families of the victims of the 37 murderers that had their death sentences commuted.