Posted on 11/30/2020 5:44:45 AM PST by Red Badger
The US Department of Justice has expanded rules governing executions to permit a wider rage of methods, including firing squads and electrocution, as five federal inmates are set to face the death penalty before Inauguration Day.
The amended rule was entered into the Federal Register on Friday, permitting the government “greater flexibility” to carry out capital punishment using any method “prescribed by the law of the state in which [a] sentence was imposed.” While lethal injection remains the most common means of execution — and previously the only one permitted under federal regulations — the new rule will accommodate states that allow for alternative methods, including death by electrocution, nitrogen gas, hanging or firing squad.
The proposed rule change was initially floated in August — with the DOJ accepting public comments for only 30 days, half of the period typically allotted — and passed a White House review earlier this month, according to ProPublica, which was first to report on the amended regulation.
While five federal prisoners are currently slated for execution before President Donald Trump leaves office in late January, the rule change is not expected to affect their cases, as each is already set to receive lethal injection.
Before Trump took power, the last federal execution was carried out in 2003 — Louis Jones, was convicted of murder and kidnapping — but the current administration has revived the custom. The government has authorized capital punishment for 13 inmates so far in 2020, including the five still in custody, all of them approved in the last six months. Though state governments routinely sentence inmates to death each year, executions have been far more rare on the federal level, seeing a total of just 45 since 1927, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
Presumed President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to end capital punishment for federal crimes, saying his administration will not approve any executions, meaning Friday’s rule change may never be put into practice. That stance reflects growing calls from fellow Democrats to abolish the death penalty outright, arguing the practice is cruel and archaic.
Yes, they'd rather shoot them on a deserted street at night in 'botched robberies'...............
And if the crime involves a child....
Bullet ants.
Well treason death sentences should be done by public hangings
Like in a Chinese restaurant.
Live on C-Span!......................
And if the crime involves a child....
Bullet ants.
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I’m game for the real deal: Giant Asian Murder Hornets
For Treason: Obama first, then Hillary, then Comey, then Brennan.
Well treason death sentences should be done by public hangings
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If the sentence is found too harsh, then, as a warning to all like minded people, we need to bring back the steel ribbed gibbet. Leave them in the Gibbet until their bones fall apart.
With full public gatherings and jumbotrons
The last public criminal executed by hanging in Florida was in our county seat, Crestview, circa 1918 or so.
Newspaper accounts of the time said it was like a carnival atmosphere, people from all over came, brought their families and picnicked on the courthouse lawn, vendors selling snacks and having a good time......................
For a real treat, the likes of Obama, Biden, Gore, Nadler, Maxine Waters and other proggy notables should get a free helicopter ride to the top of a 1500 foot transmission tower. All they have to do is to climb down. Broadcast drone footage on pay per view. Make book on how far they get. Have the two guys from American Ninja Warrior call the action. Lucky survivors will immediately be deported to a workers paradise of the audience’ choosing. Oh, no safety gear, either.
Do they have a list started which We can add names to?
So many Demonrat candidates, so little time.
§2381. Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(2)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
Treason is the reason for the sleazin’....................
Ok I’m not working today so I took time to search bullet ants. I came across a video of this guy getting one to sting his arm. Why in the heck would someone do that to themselves? Then I got to thinking how much fun it would be to see Hillary if she had some of these ants in her pants.
“For Treason: Obama first, then Hillary, then Comey, then Brennan.”
I wondered if these were being updated for some things coming down the pike........
The poor ant would probably burst into flames.
I did not even consider the fate of the poor ant. I swear sometimes I can be very cold and selfish.
how about the Guillotine.
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