Posted on 02/07/2025 4:27:41 PM PST by Beowulf9
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a sweeping execution order Monday on the death penalty that directs the attorney general to “take all necessary and lawful action” to ensure that states have enough lethal injection drugs to carry out executions.
Trump’s order, coming just hours after he returned to the White House, compels the Justice Department to not only seek the death penalty in appropriate federal cases but also to help preserve capital punishment in states that have struggled to maintain adequate supplies of lethal injection drugs.
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Trump directed the attorney general to pursue federal jurisdiction and seek the death penalty “regardless of other factors” when the case involves the killing of a law enforcement officer or capital crimes “committed by an alien illegally present in this country.” He’s also instructing the attorney general to seek to overrule Supreme Court precedents that “limit the authority of limit the authority of State and Federal governments to impose capital punishment.”
“The Government’s most solemn responsibility is to protect its citizens from abhorrent acts, and my Administration will not tolerate efforts to stymie and eviscerate the laws that authorize capital punishment against those who commit horrible acts of violence against American citizens,” Trump’s order said.
Trump’s administration carried out 13 federal executions during his first term, more than under any president in modern history, and the president has spoken frequently of expanding executions. In a speech announcing his 2024 campaign, Trump called for those “caught selling drugs to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts.” He later promised to execute drug and human smugglers and even praised China’s harsher treatment of drug peddlers.
Trump’s order comes days after Garland withdrew the Justice Department’s protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital, after a government review raised concerns about the potential for “unnecessary pain and suffering.” The protocol could be imposed by Trump’s new acting Attorney General James McHenry III, or his his pick to lead the Justice Department, Pam Bondi, once she’s confirmed by the Senate.
The pentobarbital protocol was adopted by Bill Barr, attorney general during Trump’s first term, to replace a three-drug mix used in the 2000s, the last time federal executions were carried out before Trump was in office.
Biden’s decision last month left just three inmates on federal death row. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history.
But why is the date Jan 20 2025?
also I would like to add one thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfLN8yH2aSI
Why not carbon monoxide? People use it all the time.
Only problem is you don’t want to accidentally also kill the person administering the fentanyl. I know it’s used often in anesthesia, but their supply comes with better controlled dosages than the huge, supply we’ve confiscated for free, which your post might suggest tapping.
Because a lot of states only have one or two types of execution and to add another one like carbon monoxide require state legislative approval.
Friday night and we’re still winning!
Drug companies refuse to supply the drugs they need, which are mostly anesthetics administered in overdose.
Trump can demand they supply the drugs, or face federal sanctions.
I think we should bring back Firing Squads, and let the aggrieved families staff them.
Nitrogen.
Nothing more is needed.
This.
I was thinking that comment alome will have Bryan Kohberger shaking in his boots.
Steamroller on a hot parking lot.
I’ll pay for lethal drugs for BeriaGarland and FauxiMengeleGates ..
Alabama already has the “in” on this method. Does seem to work, though if they were to do it via saturation rather than direct inhalation it would be infinitely quicker. Reason is, there have been numerous stories of people waling into a room that has had a nitrogen leak and just dropping dead. Their method takes longer, in my opinion, because the atmosphere in the room is not saturated.
I agree. Although it is normally given in micro-doses, just pump a 100 or so milligrams into the criminal and be done with it. Won’t be any pain ... just lights out.
I don't see a problem here.
Firing squads are simpler.
Rope is cheap, reusable, and public hangings have quite the deterrent factor.
Or just use nitrogen. Can’t have complaints of pain and suffering then!
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