I have no doubt that DJT sincerely means what he says about this, but the value of him saying it is not so much in actually securing the death penalty in this case but rather in contrasting himself and his policies with the soft-on-crime Dems. Look, a segment of the electorate is stupid and needs constant reminding of how disastrous the Dems’ “anti-racist” criminal justice “reform” agenda is.
I have long been a proponent of swift and sure justice. Public execution to show potential killers to whom life is cheap exactly what the cost to them will be when convicted. Six months for appeals, then sentence carried out. No waiting 20 years until they die of natural causes.