how about 12 hours for murder of anyone?
LEOs aren’t any better people than the rest of us, and some are very decidedly worse. I am opposed to any laws that further separate the Lords from the peasants.
So if the murdered is not a law enforcement officer but just an innocent regular citizen it’s ok for the trial to drag on for years ?
Nope. Not until the appeals process is exhausted. Sorry if it takes too damn long. And, NO, law enforcement gets no special treatment. How about cutting off the tongues of politicians who lie? That might be acceptable.
Why are they protected above the regular plebs?
Hell, no! We need less Federal laws, not more.
Sure, just as soon as a law is passed holding ALL associated with law enforcement to a GREATER degree for breaking the law they are paid to uphold!!!
And all in favor said.....
I don’t get why they are extra special.
I guess they want to incentivize killing non-cops.
James should quit drinking a posting. How about equal protection under the law?
Under which provision of the Constitution would the Federal Government do this?
Murder is usually a state crime. Let the states decide how to proceed.
I oppose the death penalty. I don’t think the government should have the power to execute citizens especially after all the nonsense done by prosecutors and judges to innocent people. I also think agents of the government should get special treatment.. if anything their role should be more scrutinized as they have unlimited power and funding railroad anyone they want.
Mandatory death penalty within twelve months of trial for the murder COMMITTED BY any law enforcement officer should be a federal law.
I always think of 7-11 or convenience store managers and employees. Many are in dangerous locations at all times of day providing necessary services to travelers. They have limited health care benefits, no indexed pensions, no early retirement options but nobody cares about them when they get killed in the line of duty.
I do not favor any more authority
be given to the federal government.
I am in favor of taking away their authority
and returning it to the states.
What is so special about polices?
After all, they have immunity for killing a civilian.
New York State under Governor George Pataki got back the death penalty, and there was a specific section that dealt with the death of any law enforcement officer. We also had a Three Strikes Law, but both were claimed to be unconstitutional by the courts. And unfortunately, too many liberal D.A.’s and Judges let violent offenders walk free so they can turn around and, injure or murder innocent people.
Cops don’t get special considerations. Too many rotten corrupt cops. See the Karen Reed trial as though we need reminders or those morons in Texas who let the kids get shot at school.
Fixed it for them.
There's no reason crims should get off light just because they're feckless.
Expediting things is dangerous.
There is an obvious reason why you have appeals and a second and third look at things.
Once you execute someone, it's sort of difficult to fix things if you're wrong.
It's not that a bad guy doesn't deserve punished, but when you rush things, you almost always make “mistakes” more likely.
Just in the last 4 years (folks exonerated):
2020
--Robert Duboise, Florida. Convicted 1985.
--Curtis Flowers, Mississippi. Convicted 1997.
--Kareem Johnson, Pennsylvania. Convicted 2007.
--Roderick Johnson, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1997.
--Walter Ogrod, Pennsylvania. Convicted 1996.
2021
--Sherwood Brown, Mississippi. Convicted 1995.
--Eddie Lee Howard, Jr., Mississippi. Convicted 1994.
--Barry Williams, California. Convicted 1986.
2023
--Glynn Simmons, Oklahoma. Convicted 1975.
Mistakes ARE made.
Justice and the courts are NOT perfect.
Start side stepping the process and you're literally “asking for it,” regards executing innocent lives.