There's A GOP Plan For An Execution Spree If Trump Wins The White House

[Nevilledog]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-plan-for-executions-if-trump-wins_n_663b97a7e4b0bcaefbf76812

During the final six months of Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration carried out an unprecedented execution spree, killing 13 people on federal death row and ending a 17-year de facto federal execution moratorium.

Shortly after Joe Biden entered the White House, the Justice Department formally reinstated the federal execution moratorium and announced a sweeping policy review. But despite Biden’s campaign promise to work to end the federal death penalty, there has been little progress toward that goal.

Meanwhile, Trump, the GOP’s presumptive 2024 presidential nominee, has openly fantasized about executing drug dealers and human traffickers. He reportedly suggested that officials who leak information to the press should be executed, too. And behind the scenes, there’s a team of pro-Trump conservatives who are pushing for a second Trump term that involves even more state-sponsored killing than the first.

Last year, a coalition effort by conservative groups known as Project 2025 released an 887-page document that lays out policy goals and recommendations for each part of the federal government. Buried on page 554 is a directive to execute every remaining federal death row prisoner — and to persuade the Supreme Court to expand the types of crimes that can be punished with death sentences.

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[Tickle]

1. Is anyone keeping tabs on tRump's rally tonight

in NJ? Maybe he'll talk about it

[Turbineguy]

2. Trump will kill many more.

[poozwah]

3. hypocrisy

pro life?

[bucolic_frolic]

4. An appeal to bloodthirsty MAGA voters

I don't think this strategy has much incremental value as a voter attraction throw.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Like Hitler, the GOP has a bloodlust.

A desire to kill, injure, destroy, torture people.

[canetoad]

6. This seems to be the icing on the cake

For tsf; the power over life and death.