The administration of United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to expand the use of the federal death penalty, including through the deployment of firing squads.
The announcement on Friday was part of a policy document issued by the Department of Justice, setting out the legal argument for various methods of execution.
It touted steps for “restoring and strengthening” the death penalty as integral to the pursuit of justice.
“The Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences — clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals,” the Justice Department said in a news release.
Seems on brand
I warned about this before the election. People thought I was crazy…
Republicans have literally been talking about this for years…
Abolish the death penalty completely no reason to trust the state with this power.
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Build massive secretive camps that house thousands and thousands of people
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Raise a personal gestapo to hunt down and disappear immigrants
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Pass laws that brand anyone left of Reagan as a domestic terrorist
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Call for more firing squads
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They don’t call it fascist dystopia for no reason.
- Americans continue to do fuck all, giving it their tacit approval
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You forgot to profit between each step.
The last step is to privatize all the previous steps.
They could have stopped at the prisons then, that’s where most of the profit is.
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Trump should be met by a firing squad. I’m sure there would be lots of volunteers.
I was gonna say, this is a choice that may backfire, so to speak.
Get a national vote. Anyone found guilty of 30+ felonies must be executed by firing squad.
I wouldn’t want it, but it would get Republicans to vote against it
Yeah but Harris was once a district attorney. So we get this. Its all the Demmicrats fault.
The fact this is still getting downvotes is pathetic.
Lemmys gonna lemming themselves in front of the firing squads they did nothing to oppose.
Trump could run as a Democrat and you’d be on here telling everyone they’re an idiot for not voting for him and that’s why we are where we are right now.
No.
I hope he does this, then the next president comes in and trump gets sentenced to death for treason lol.
Unlikely but a nice dream
I have absolutely no faith anyone will ever give these psychos any consequenses, especially not any democrat. That would mean they themselves would be open to consequenses, and that simply won’t do for the ruling class. The worst that is ever going to happen to Trump through legal and peaceful means, is that he’ll be sentenced to house arrest at Mar-a-lago, and even that is doubtful. Any other punishment will have to be done by the people.
Hell it’s a toss-up whether or not he’ll survive until the election. He’s under assault from both the outside and his own body. It’s just a question of what gets to him first a bullet or the dementia.
…or the McDonald’s.
Probably the McDonald’s. After all, it has already infiltrated the Pentagon.
Searching for ways to go as low as possible, this orange administration. Very creative.
Nothing should be a clearer indication that the death penalty should not exist than lunatics like him controlling it.
It’s funny how all the countries with autocrats or legal corruption love the death penalty
Itakes perfect sense really. They want to be able to legally execute their political enemies and anyone ideologically opposed to them.
also that countries that work to reduce violence like this and disparity is actually advancing. theory crafting societies of violence is just never going to work out in any long term way.
This is why I am disinclined to believe in secret government conspiracies. None of the actions of the current administration are clever or indicative of a larger long-term strategy, they’re all short-term plans that mostly exist so they can feel big and important when they announce them, rather than because they will necessarily achieve anything.
Secret conspiracies definitely exist but I agree this particular administration is too inept to keep anything under wraps.
I think they are likely but not like theories have them. Mostly bad action. The larger the more we know. I mean we know a ton about crazy crap they want to do currently. Not so much hidden as denied. Lots of illegal institutional activities.
For themselves?
Gee, I wonder if capital punishment is going to be recommended for “anti-American values”, etc.
Totally no way that’s going to happen.
He wants to watch more videos of executions.
Remember they are setting this bar for justice when the pendulum swings… If I hear one outcry about lifetime sentences for these Epstein pedos I will lose my shit.
