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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump administration to bring back federal death penalty after 16-year lapse...I'm so proud.
Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the peoples representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President. ... The Justice Department upholds the rule of lawand we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.
Attorney General Bill Barr
Why it matters: No federal executions have taken place since 2003 an informal moratorium as the Justice Department "reviewed its lethal injection protocols," per the Washington Post. In addition to directing the BOP to resume capital punishment, Barr has asked the acting director of the agency to schedule the executions of 5 death-row inmates convicted of murder, beginning on Dec. 9.
https://www.axios.com/federal-death-penalty-justice-department-576a2e44-5cf0-4f95-a301-34216eb0eaf2.html?stream=politics&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_politics
0rganism
(23,957 posts)this will all be quite useful in implementing eugenics programs down the road. enabling act, here we come.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)All those people around trump, including trump and Barr, or found guilty of treason....
DFW
(54,405 posts)I'd say any member of the Trump administration should consider this a mortal threat.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)So treason during wartime gets you ...
DFW
(54,405 posts)A cabinet post.
lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)And if one really proved their worth they could be rewarded with a nice little dacha.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)a genocidal, totalitarian dictatorship like those we have seen in the past with Hitler, Stalin and others.
Packing the courts with extreme right-wing judges, contempt for the rule of law, stirring up fear and hatred against immigrants, minorities, non-Christians, gay people, women, liberals, etc., putting people in concentration camps, the list goes on.
And all of this has either been implemented or accelerated in only 2.5 years under Trump. Can you imagine another 6.5 years of what a Trump administration will do to this country?
A lot of people feel like what happened in Nazi German could never happen here. I don't believe that at all. In fact, I think it's happening, but they have not taken it to it's extreme yet.
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)we can hang the traitors. Great ratings!
Johonny
(20,851 posts)like you know, fuck let's kill some people to get the weekend shows gabbing about it instead of all the dirty * we did and continue to do.
If I were cynical, I might think they care not at all for the humans that live on this Earth.