[BiglyCommentary]

Impeachment in the House is the indictment. The Senate conducts the trial.

In the entire history of the United States, can anyone point to one single solitary instance where a person that was indicted, then DIED before their case went to trial, a trial was held and they were convicted? Beuller? Bueller?

[monkeywrench]

LBJ? Wasn’t he tried and convicted of murder after he was dead?

[Verginius Rufus]

Is this a rhetorical question or a trick question? I'm not a lawyer. Obviously if a defendant has died he can't be physically punished, but I could envision a situation where a monetary fine or restitution might be in question and it would be valuable to resolve the question of innocence or guilt.

Of course the Warren Commission went on to pronounce Lee Harvey Oswald guilty after his death and to declare him the lone gunman. 50 years later much of the public still wonders what the truth was.