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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump DOJ Announces It Will Start Executing People by Firing Squad
The Department of Justice announced Friday that it will resurrect federal firing squads as part of an effort to implement Donald Trumps day-one executive order to revamp capital punishment.
Trumps order, signed in January 2025, demanded the attorney general pursue the death penalty on all crimes of a severity demanding its use, including murder of a law enforcement officer or any capital crime committed by an undocumented immigrant.
Under former President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland had paused federal executions. Trump became furious when, before leaving the White House, Biden pardoned 37 prisoners on death row. The Republican kicked off his second term in office with a bloodthirsty decree for more death.
https://newrepublic.com/post/209500/donald-trump-department-justice-death-sentence-firing-squads
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Skittles
(172,269 posts)yes indeed
orangecrush
(30,709 posts)Welcome to the banana republic
Coventina
(29,824 posts)as criminals executed by firing squad.
orangecrush
(30,709 posts)He's running out of time, things are going to start happening quickly.
UpInArms
(55,147 posts)Coventina
(29,824 posts)UpInArms
(55,147 posts)
Shellback Squid
(10,120 posts)canetoad
(20,864 posts)Bloodlust.
anciano
(2,286 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(179,199 posts)He likes to see the blood.
RussBLib
(10,684 posts)USA! USA!
https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1
DFW
(60,332 posts)Just say, "suuuuuuuuuure you are."
doc03
(39,122 posts)with Trump and the J6 mob.
Blue Owl
(59,385 posts)Oops! Donny poopy pants go boom-boom .
Volaris
(11,763 posts)chowder66
(12,388 posts)moondust
(21,317 posts)That the Misanthrope in Chief will pay a visit to one or more of those prisons so he can pull the trigger?