For the first time in decades, capital punishment is a rising issue in the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign. Several of the Republican candidates are pushing for expanding the death penalty to be used as punishment for a wider array of crimes, including drug and human trafficking. President Joe Biden, meanwhile, has argued against capital punishment and promised in his 2020 campaign to remove it from U.S. statutes. The president has not yet acted on his campaign promise, however. Republicans, including presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, have been outspoken on the campaign trail about their desires to enforce tougher…