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.
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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?!
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.
Always a fucking day he comes up with an awful idea.
He means Death Squads. Every Republican accusation was an admission of guilt.
Would anybody be interested in a party at The White House on July 4th? BYOF(Bring Your Own Fireworks).
Don't let the trump folk know about being "drawn and quartered". Those fuckers will jump on that like white on rice. Can you say "trump/epstein" files?
Or the Blood Eagle execution the Vikings used to do, yikes 😳
Blood eagles were only mentioned by Christian skalds hundreds of years after the viking age. There is zero contemporary historical evidence that vikings ever practiced that form of execution.
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.
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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.
Let's start with them.
Can we start with the pedophiles?
Sure, but only the poor ones.
Boo
Tbh if I was on death row, I think I'd prefer firing squad to some drug cocktail
Smart choice. Lethal injection has a terrible history in reliably killing someone without issues. A firing squad is significantly more humane, and people on death row will generally opt for it if given the choice.
However, it's far less common today because society doesn't like firing squads; everything about them feels too barbaric.
Hmmm I wonder why that is... Surely it couldn't be because capital punishment itself has no place in civilized society, right?
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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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???
I hope this is foreshadowing for the trump regime being executed as war criminals.
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Abolish the death penalty completely no reason to trust the state with this power.
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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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.
Searching for ways to go as low as possible, this orange administration. Very creative.
I warned about this before the election. People thought I was crazy...
Republicans have literally been talking about this for years...
If I supported capital punishment, I'd be in favor of firing squads over lethal injection. It's more honest. Shooting someone is clearly meant to kill while lethal injection dresses it up like a medical procedure.
I oppose capital punishment though. The criminal justice system is not reliable enough to only punish those truly guilty of the worst crimes, it doesn't seem to be a more effective deterrent than imprisonment, and it usually ends up costing more than imprisonment for an offender's natural lifespan.
I mean...
There's completely painless ways to die.
That's what the whole assisted suicide thing is in civilized countries.
The "problem" is, that's completely painless, you just go to sleep. And the people who want this, want it to be a painful gruesome death.
It's not justice or even removing an uncontrollable element, it's vengeance. And vengeance has to be painful.
There's nothing stopping an ethical death penalty except the ethics of the people implementing
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