Posted on 10/31/2018 10:40:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Before a suspect was even publicly named, President Donald Trump declared that whoever gunned down 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue should “suffer the ultimate price” and that the death penalty should be brought back “into vogue.”
Trump has largely gotten his wish, at least on the federal level, with death penalty cases ticking back up under his Justice Department after a near-moratorium on such prosecutions in President Barack Obama’s last term, when he directed a broad review of capital punishment and issues surrounding lethal injection.
Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has so far approved at least a dozen death penalty prosecutions over the past two years, according to court filings tracked by the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel, with cases ranging from the high profile to the relatively obscure.
They include the man charged with using a rented truck to fatally mow down eight people on a New York City bike path a year ago; three men charged in a fatal armored truck robbery in New Orleans; a gang suspect in Detroit charged with “murder in aid of racketeering”; and a man charged with fatally shooting a tribal police officer in New Mexico on the nation’s largest American Indian reservation. […]
By comparison, in Obama’s final year in office the Justice Department authorized just one capital prosecution, that of Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who fatally shot nine black people in 2015 during a church service in Charleston, South Carolina. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Fire up Old Sparkey and buy new ropes! It’s time to clean out the prisons.
Uh oh. Another crisis for the MSM-Democrats to get outraged over.
New headline: “Under Trump, the Associated Press has become crazy and idiotic”
Y’all have no idea how glad I am to hear this! Now I can write that letter that I WAS hoping to be able to write.
Definitely good news.
Had to fix tagline.
(When it's really about exoneration—and NOT "innocence").
Were we supposed to wait to find the perp and then decide if he/she is some kind of special snowflake whose life circumstances were so unkind that the killings were justified?
Nonsense. Doesn't matter who did it -- the death penalty is the only reasonable penalty for this person, whoever it is.
CAN we move it down to state levels? TN has 60 on Death Row. We are supposed to execute 1 Thursday, 2nd one this year. Idiot chose the chair, they complained it was cruel and unusual punishment. Maybe we could get the NYC cop killer Mumia.
We have 1 with DNA PROOF, he left his semen in the body of a 8 yr old girl, then strangled her with her own shoelaces unconscious, tied her body in a old blanket, threw her off a boat dock in Memphis to drown. Led police to site, confessed, 2 jury trials gave him the DP based on DNA. That was 1990, he’s still in State appeals. Why you have DNA PROOF!
Federal and state death penalties have intentionally been made ridiculous by the left and liberal federal judges. The way to reform the process is carried out by the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.
The only federal court required by the constitution is the SCOTUS. All other federal courts are created and controlled by congress. Congress determines, or at least *should* determine their jurisdictions and cases they accept, the precedence they follow, the sentencing guidelines they follow, etc., etc.
For some lesser federal judge to enjoin the POTUS, or say his ruling applies to the entire nation, is nonsense and should not be tolerated.
For judges to overturn state laws, appoint special masters, throw out death penalty statutes because they don’t want them enforced, etc., ad nauseum, are abuses of office that need to be restricted by congress.
Congress could impose mandatory retirement ages for them. They could also impose rules for when and how they recuse themselves from cases (like the judge in CA who overturned their man-woman marriage referendum, then retired and came out as a homosexual.)
Truly, the judiciary committees have been slacking off, run either by Democrats or RINOs.
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