Trump says he will direct Justice Department to ‘vigorously pursue the death penalty’

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President-elect Donald Trump speaks at AmericaFest, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix. Rick Scuteri/AP

President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct the Department of Justice to “vigorously pursue the death penalty” after President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 federal inmates to life in prison.

 

“As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.

 

We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, echoing his long-standing advocacy for use of the death penalty, which was part of his tough-on-crime rhetoric during the 2024 campaign.

 

After Biden’s commutation of most federal death row inmates – which Trump on Truth Social said “makes no sense” – there will be just three individuals in federal prison facing the death penalty when the president-elect takes office in January.

 

Full story: CNN 

-- 2024-12-26

 

 

[Jingthing]

How are the people not protected by life in prison sentences?
Trump apparently is drunk with power including the power of the state to murder.

[GammaGlobulin]

I am against the death penalty, and always have been.....

Ever since I voted for McGovern.

 

Yet, nobody listens to me.

 

By the way:

 

Does anybody listen to you?

 

That's right!

Nobody listens.

And, you have NOBODY to vote for, EITHER!!!!!!!!!!!

 

In fact, the only guy people are listening to...these days.....might be.....

 

Luigi

 

He came out of nowhere....but now....

People are listening.

 

 

 

[Jingthing]

The irony of criminally corrupt felon / adjudicated rapist Trump proclaiming law and order is endlessly delicious.

But it wasn't a fluke this time.

Americans actually voted for this fascist.

[GammaGlobulin]

5 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

The irony of criminally corrupt felon / adjudicated rapist Trump proclaiming law and order is endlessly delicious.

But it wasn't a fluke this time.

Americans actually voted for this fascist.

 

Overwhelmingly, it seems.

Just as I predicted.

 

[rattlesnake]

Good.

[Jingthing]

10 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Overwhelmingly, it seems.

Just as I predicted.

 

1.5 percent.

[GammaGlobulin]

5 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

1.5 percent.

 

Correct.

And, these days....

Overwhelming.

Not to mention, miraculous.

 

[jippytum]

Good for him and please make it come quicker for convicted rapists,  child molesters and murderers who plead guilty. 

Why keep these people on death row for years hoping for a pardon from a senile outgoing president. 

[GammaGlobulin]

13 minutes ago, jippytum said:

murderers who plead guilty

 

So.

You think just because one pleads guilty to murder....then....

They are guilty?

 

Really?

 

 

 

 

[neeray]

Does that mean that Co-President Musk also endorses Trump's death penalty beliefs?

[bkk6060]

Well, if my family member was the victim I would go to the prison with a bag of popcorn and watch these disgusting criminals fry, then laugh in their face.

[GammaGlobulin]

5 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Well, if my family member was the victim I would go to the prison with a bag of popcorn and watch these disgusting criminals fry, then laugh in their face.

 

a. Even if we abolish the death penalty....

b. You can still pop your popcorn

 

c.  The death penalty must be abolished

 

d. Too many who are innocent are killed by the state. This is barbaric.

 

e,  Not that I care, anymore, really.  Just too much garbage have I seen in my life.....Therefore....a bit more barbarism means almost NOTHING to me, these days.

 

f.  We are now facing the end of organized human civilization, and nobody cares.  So, maybe best to have a lethal injection, earlier, rather than suffer climate change and rampant uncontrolled migration, and thusly suffer death by a thousand cuts.

 

I will be happy to go when I go.

But, still, I would not choose to Die by Cop, or nothing.....

 

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

The irony of criminally corrupt felon / adjudicated rapist Trump proclaiming law and order is endlessly delicious.

But it wasn't a fluke this time.

Americans actually voted for this fascist.

Having a bad day? It's just going to get worse come January. Perhaps you should get off the internet so you don't get triggered all the time.

[thaibeachlovers]

3 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Too many who are innocent are killed by the state. This is barbaric.

That is an indisputable fact. It's the reason I'm against the death penalty. I've nothing against ridding the state of the cost of looking after the really bad criminals, but too many innocents have been put to death to want it to exist.

[GammaGlobulin]

Anyone who... Vigorously Pursues the Death Penalty is.....a.....

NUTCASE.

 

I believe that Trump would never do such a thing.

 

[GammaGlobulin]

10 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

That is an indisputable fact. It's the reason I'm against the death penalty. I've nothing against ridding the state of the cost of looking after the really bad criminals, but too many innocents have been put to death to want it to exist.

 

Unfortunately, our present world has become so polarized that reason, and even the ability to reason, has been lost.

Instead, we are heading for Bedlam.

 

[Jingthing]

24 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Having a bad day? It's just going to get worse come January. Perhaps you should get off the internet so you don't get triggered all the time.

Perhaos you should mind yer own bidnes and stop trolling.

[mania]

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

How are the people not protected by life in prison sentences?
Trump apparently is drunk with power including the power of the state to murder.

 

Perhaps you should write your congressman or senator ? Oh wait you don't have one as you don't live in the USA nor have you lived there in decades right?

Yet you want to decide how the cake that you need not eat is baked right?

 

You want to decide what the families of the murdered victims should be happy/protected with right?

 

Lastly about your protected by life imprisonment comment...how about you put your money where you situational ethics are & donate your SS to help pay for the life incarcerations of these murderers?

 

Yeah didn't think so.....next

 

[GammaGlobulin]

19 minutes ago, mania said:

drunk with power

 

This rarely, if ever, happens.

 

It's, basically, just a myth.

 

 

Poor Musk.

 

Originally, he was on the right track....until....

 

He recently became DRUNK with POWER.....

 

And, it can happen to almost anyone.....

 

 

Perhaps, her trousers were her undoing.....

Who knows.

 

 

[jimmybcool]

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

How are the people not protected by life in prison sentences?
Trump apparently is drunk with power including the power of the state to murder.

 

Some would advocate that justice is better served taking the life from evil people.  SOme would advocate that the families of their victims find closure seeing the evil terminated.  It assures society that they will NEVER escape or be released into society again to perpetrate evil again. 

 

It might also deter others with evil intent from acting on their urges.  Yeah, I l know the debate rages as to the deterrent effect.  I don't think most psychos think that far ahead but if their execution was public their whimpering as the needle goes in removes any cool factor the killer had.  They might envision themself in a similar position if they act on evil urges and might control themselves.  No way to know for sure.

 

Lastly, why should society spend millions imprisoning a true scumbag for 40 years when a bullet and cheap grave are available?  Just a thought.

 

 

[jimmybcool]

2 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I am against the death penalty, and always have been.....

Ever since I voted for McGovern.

 

Yet, nobody listens to me.

 

By the way:

 

Does anybody listen to you?

 

That's right!

Nobody listens.

And, you have NOBODY to vote for, EITHER!!!!!!!!!!!

 

In fact, the only guy people are listening to...these days.....might be.....

 

Luigi

 

He came out of nowhere....but now....

People are listening.

 

 

 

 

I have mixed feelings overall about HOW the death penalty is charged and prosecuted.  If there is undisputed PROOF of a heinous crime then I have no problem with it and doing it quickly not dragged out for 20 years.  That proof would need to be surviving potential victims/eye witnesses and video etc.

 

Unfortunately HOW it is applied is usually to poor people and people of color at an unequal rate.  So I respect your position. 

 

I am not against the death penalty for some people.  But it needs to be tightened up to make sure only the guilty are put to death.

[thesetat]

Unbelievable the comments I am seeing in here from the Trump haters. Yet, so many of them would be saying to hang the Thai or foreigner in Thailand that commits a heinous act in Thailand resulting in the death of an innocent. Such double standards apply only because of their hate for Trump. 

If you kill someone then you should expect your life to be over as well. It is the worst act you can commit and unfortunately humans are the only animals that kill each other. 

You Trump haters commenting should be thinking how you would feel if someone killed your mother or daughter or wife. It is easy to comment as a keyboard warrior looking at things from a distance saying it is bad. Get yourself in the middle of it and then your opinion would quickly change. Death sentences are not handed out easily. It takes a lot to prove and then to issue a death sentence. It also takes many years to exhaust the methods of changing that ruling. Usually many appeals in courts. Showing that they actually deserve that sentencing.  Get off your high horses and put yourself in a perspective that the victims understand. Stop being the keyboard warriors commenting your double standards simply because you hate Trump. 

[quake]

15 minutes ago, thesetat said:

unfortunately humans are the only animals that kill each other. 

 

 Oh behave. 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, jimmybcool said:

If there is undisputed PROOF of a heinous crime then I have no problem with it and doing it quickly not dragged out for 20 years. 

 

A good stoning-to-death is quicker, and less dragged out.

 

[jippytum]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

This rarely, if ever, happens.

 

It's, basically, just a myth.

 

 

Poor Musk.

 

Originally, he was on the right track....until....

 

He recently became DRUNK with POWER.....

 

And, it can happen to almost anyone.....

 

 

Perhaps, her trousers were her undoing.....

Who knows.

 

 

Harris never had power. She only aspired to. Happily the electorate didn't help her.. 

 

[Purdey]

Donald Trump Stands By ‘Central Park 5’ Ad Calling for Death Penalty: ‘They Admitted Their Guilt’

Five young men were wrongly convicted in a brutal 1989 attack on a jogger in Central Park, then exonerated when DNA evidence proved another man committed the crime — and he confessed. 

[thesetat]

7 hours ago, Purdey said:

Donald Trump Stands By ‘Central Park 5’ Ad Calling for Death Penalty: ‘They Admitted Their Guilt’

Five young men were wrongly convicted in a brutal 1989 attack on a jogger in Central Park, then exonerated when DNA evidence proved another man committed the crime — and he confessed. 

You try your best to show Trump in a bad way for these things. But face it. The men were not put to death and had gotten released from exoneration. They would not have been put to death either because it takes almost 20 years in prison before a death sentence is given. Plenty of time for them to be exonerated or to fight with appeals in the courts. So your nice little Trump rhetoric has no bearing to this OP. 

[JonnyF]

When there is no doubt over the guilt of people committing horrible crimes, especially agaiinst children, the death sentence is appropriate. 

[stevenl]

3 hours ago, mania said:

 

Perhaps you should write your congressman or senator ? Oh wait you don't have one as you don't live in the USA nor have you lived there in decades right?

Yet you want to decide how the cake that you need not eat is baked right?

 

You want to decide what the families of the murdered victims should be happy/protected with right?

 

Lastly about your protected by life imprisonment comment...how about you put your money where you situational ethics are & donate your SS to help pay for the life incarcerations of these murderers?

 

Yeah didn't think so.....next

 

All other arguments aside, you do realize that with all costs involved a life sentence is cheaper than a death penalty?

 

https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/which-is-cheaper-execution-or-life-in-prison-without-parole-31614