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.
We can start with his administration. Most of them have committed crimes punishable by death.
Again I ask.
Does anyone really think those camps are only for immigrants, or criminals?
Bullshit. They’re for us.
In a two tiered justice system where the rich have no accountability I can’t see this being problematic at all. America is a shit hole country now.
is this where I post that always has been meme?
Had been for quite awhile now, longer than we’ve been able to see it.
And everyone on this side of the pond said I’m overreacting by calling trumps immigrant detention centers “concentration camps”, but here we are. Even the Nazis didn’t start as fast with their genocide as the orange turd seems to try.
Shooting the pedos? Let’s start there.
Will they start with child rapists?!
That would be friendly fire.
They can add that label to the prisoners, sure
Nope just immigrants
Add Russian agents to the list.
Death penalty is stupid because now ppl who Commit a crime will just all in.
Death for being a rally? Guess ill just commit to politicians instead
Death for aborting rapist baby. Guess ill kill the rapist and maybe a few morw while im at it.
Etc etc
The death penalty is anathema to civilised society.
He means Death Squads. Every Republican accusation was an admission of guilt.
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.
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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.
You forgot to profit between each step.
The last step is to privatize all the previous steps.
- Americans continue to do fuck all, giving it their tacit approval
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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.
Always a fucking day he comes up with an awful idea.
How delusional are you to think that Trump is the one coming up with this? The Heritage Foundation folks are the ones running the agenda.
I hope this is foreshadowing for the trump regime being executed as war criminals.
Firing squads are too clean, I want gallows, I want gallows run by someone who ain’t any count at running a gallows, so they all die in terrible ways
I think I read that some WW2 Nazi wanted to be killed by firing squad after Nuremberg, but they told him no. Firing squads are for soldiers. Hanging is for criminals, so he would hang.
Sounds like we need to resurrect this guy. He was allegedly pretty terrible at his job, and several of the individuals he hanged did not die a quick death.
There is a Behind the Bastards episode on him
I have no problem with Nazi executions at Nuremberg, even if they were horrific, but this dude sounds like a cowardly blowhard who got to live out his sadistic shitty dreams.
The satisfaction I felt when I got to the end of the WP bio and read this: “While changing a lightbulb and standing in a pool of water, Woods was accidentally electrocuted on July 21, 1950 and buried in Toronto Township Cemetery, Toronto, Kansas.”
In the end, he got the chair. Taken out by the competition.
Holy cow. This guy.
“While changing a lightbulb and standing in a pool of water, Woods was accidentally electrocuted on July 21, 1950…”
He’s a looney tunes character
That is who I was thinking of lol
Even the gallows is probably too good for them. There’s plenty of YA novels to draw inspiration from, let’s do some Hunger games like thing.
Are we doing a rerun of the Ceaușesc Family. The season finale was worth watching.
Whenever capital punishment comes up, I am reminded of the hypocrisy of American Christians.
Pretty much every Christian claims to believe that killing is prohibited by the ten commandments. In a democracy, if you vote for a politician who supports the death penalty, you are asking them to kill a person on your behalf. A Christian should not be able to vote for a politician who supports the death penalty.
Compare that with abortion. The bible says virtually nothing about abortion except how to pray for one. If you vote for a pro-choice politician, nobody is being killed on your behalf.
Compare these two, and it’s obvious that a Christian who votes for a pro-death-penalty and anti-abortion candidate is voting against their own religion. But they claim to be voting for Christian values, which is pure hypocrisy.
I think we are reaching a point where its an open secret that the words of Jesus are purely marketing for Christianity and the reality is quite uglier.
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yeah but the realization for large portions of the population is what is new, although I agree that it has always been just marketing!
It might not even be the amount of people realizing, but the ability to share and express ideas has gotten a little easier. …at least for now.
yeah, although I feel like open communication leads to more people realizing, but I get your point.
I feel like the democratization of global communication led to “a new hope” of sorts, and now we’re living through “The Empire Strikes Back”
Just got to make it to the third movie before things get too bleak… Hopefully…
Totally agree with you on all points. People seem willing to rise up, even if it’s taking a bit longer than I’d have hoped, but there is still hope.
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I’m an atheist and I know not to subsume all of Christianity under white evangelicalism.
Yeah, I think all religion is superstition and all superstition is a negative force on humanity, but even I think that some religions and denominations are worse than others. And yes, evangelicism is among the very worst.
For many for sure, I still hope others think the proper lessons are good. I mostly cling to that cause I went to religious schools as a kid, parents were not and I am not, but had decent education otherwise. But I did learn Christianity decently and in general has good ideas but they’ve been warped to greedy people’s needs.
Kinda reminds me of the movie Dogma, ideas are good (help people, be kind etc) but beliefs are hard to change. If you got an idea it can be shifted into something better as needs change.
I think if there is a higher power (I don’t really but think it’s a possibility like multi dimensions) they’d like us to understand the spirit of that book, not literal and not use it like a shield for being an asshole.
In the end you are you, if you don’t do stuff cause a book says no, it not cause you are good. If you do good stuff just cause a book says so it’s not good either. Want to be better for the people around you, not what some book says.
As someone raised in the church, but did not fall into white nationalism like so many Republicans, they will absolutely never be swayed by logic. They’re literally brainwashed in a cult. Jesus is no different than a member of antifa to them. They only care about themselves, their cult, its leader, and seeing other people hurt. None of those things are in the ten commandments. If judgement day came today, every single one of them would have a reserved seat in a particularly nasty place in Hell.
The bible says virtually nothing about abortion except how to pray for one.
It actually literally has a recipe for it
It actually says no, no less than three times, that life begins at the first breath, thereby obliterating 90% of the anti abortion talking points.
