DOJ seeks to expand federal methods of execution to include the firing squad. Also: Fifth Circuit rejects challenge to Texas's criminal immigration enforcement law. And: Trump's IRS suit hits a snag.
The death penalty is a draconian remnant of an uncivilised world. In this day and era we should never consider it a reasonable punishment. It does not surprise me that Trump's minions think death is something to be meted out by juries that sometimes get it wrong. Even one life unjustly taken warrants there being NO death penalty ever. Prison for life yes, but never the death penalty because it closes all avenues of justice if there was a mistaken evidential claim made and later found wanting. Evidence can be tampered with and overturned thus affecting the accused's prospects for a new verdict.
It seems just like the Blanche DOJ to expand methods of executing death sentences, and humans.
It will seem just like it too, when it moves to expand capital offenses. Second things first, you know, just like the illogic of injustice in all the other things it pursues so zealously.
The Trump Administration has a time problem -- it takes time to execute people. Appeals take time.
They did release a non-capital prisoner to a state that then executed the person. They also encouraged states to use state death penalty laws against people Biden commuted.
The death penalty is a relic of barbarism that has no place in a society that even claims to be civilized. That it's being pushed by an administration that prides itself on being "tough" and "manly" and "lethal" headed by a man-child so doubtful of his own merit that he has to plaster his name on anything available in the (no doubt vain) hope that he will be remembered by history as someone powerful and worthy of that notice should come as no surprise.
We are a shameful outlier. We are the only UN member state in the Americas to have executed anyone since 2008. We are virtually alone among - I almost used the passé term "our allies" - NATO nations in maintaining this badge of brutality, this symbol of savagery, which despite the lack of any evidence that it reduces the murder rate, despite the demonstrated racist bias in its imposition, despite the execution of innocent people, despite the murder rate continuing to gradually decline, despite dropping support, it itself refuses to die.
Twenty-three US states, Washington, DC, and four US territories have banned capital punishment. Of the 27 states and one territory that allow it, seven have a moratorium on it and five more have had no executions for over 10 years, leaving 16 states and the feds with active death penalties.
This administration is all about murder, maim, and mayhem. Wanna bet the next step is to want to gas their Concentration Camps? From murder by bombs on Iran for zilch reasons to murder in the Caribbean of innocent fishermen to ordering more murder. Seems to me that money = murder as a means of control. Some actually innocent people have been murdered by the prison system, a for profit organization and a multimillion US business offering kickbacks to some GOP members of Congress. All things considered if and or when we take back the government we have so much work to do to actually make America a working Democracy it’s flabbergasting.
Posturing! As if life in these United States is a bogus reality show.
Apparently Donald Trump discovered his bloodymindedness only after the war in Vietnam ended.
Remember the success of demanding death sentences for the Central Park Five?
Our country is going to hell… 😢😔
It's there!
The death penalty is a draconian remnant of an uncivilised world. In this day and era we should never consider it a reasonable punishment. It does not surprise me that Trump's minions think death is something to be meted out by juries that sometimes get it wrong. Even one life unjustly taken warrants there being NO death penalty ever. Prison for life yes, but never the death penalty because it closes all avenues of justice if there was a mistaken evidential claim made and later found wanting. Evidence can be tampered with and overturned thus affecting the accused's prospects for a new verdict.
NOT on our watch! https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2025/03/a-jewish-response-to-the-resumption-of-us-firing-squad-executions/
From your lips to God’s ear!
Hate...hate...hate! If anyon deserves the death penalty. it's these people!
It seems just like the Blanche DOJ to expand methods of executing death sentences, and humans.
It will seem just like it too, when it moves to expand capital offenses. Second things first, you know, just like the illogic of injustice in all the other things it pursues so zealously.
The Trump Administration has a time problem -- it takes time to execute people. Appeals take time.
They did release a non-capital prisoner to a state that then executed the person. They also encouraged states to use state death penalty laws against people Biden commuted.
The death penalty is a relic of barbarism that has no place in a society that even claims to be civilized. That it's being pushed by an administration that prides itself on being "tough" and "manly" and "lethal" headed by a man-child so doubtful of his own merit that he has to plaster his name on anything available in the (no doubt vain) hope that he will be remembered by history as someone powerful and worthy of that notice should come as no surprise.
We are a shameful outlier. We are the only UN member state in the Americas to have executed anyone since 2008. We are virtually alone among - I almost used the passé term "our allies" - NATO nations in maintaining this badge of brutality, this symbol of savagery, which despite the lack of any evidence that it reduces the murder rate, despite the demonstrated racist bias in its imposition, despite the execution of innocent people, despite the murder rate continuing to gradually decline, despite dropping support, it itself refuses to die.
Twenty-three US states, Washington, DC, and four US territories have banned capital punishment. Of the 27 states and one territory that allow it, seven have a moratorium on it and five more have had no executions for over 10 years, leaving 16 states and the feds with active death penalties.
That's 16 too many.
I HATE this place!
I'm surprised that the DOJ omitted death by public stoning, and being drawn & quartered.
Probably just an oversight.
When will they bring back stoning and burning at the stake?
This administration is all about murder, maim, and mayhem. Wanna bet the next step is to want to gas their Concentration Camps? From murder by bombs on Iran for zilch reasons to murder in the Caribbean of innocent fishermen to ordering more murder. Seems to me that money = murder as a means of control. Some actually innocent people have been murdered by the prison system, a for profit organization and a multimillion US business offering kickbacks to some GOP members of Congress. All things considered if and or when we take back the government we have so much work to do to actually make America a working Democracy it’s flabbergasting.