Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty, setting up legal challenges in second term

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Nov. 9, 2024, 7:00 AM EST


Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump signaled he would resume federal executions if he won and make more people eligible for capital punishment, including child rapists, migrants who kill U.S. citizens and law enforcement officers, and those convicted of drug and human trafficking.

“These are terrible, terrible, horrible people who are responsible for death, carnage and crime all over the country,” Trump said of traffickers when he announced his 2024 candidacy. “We’re going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts,” he added.

While it remains unclear how Trump would act to expand the death penalty, anti-death penalty groups and criminal justice reform advocates say they are taking his claims seriously, noting the spree of federal executions that occurred during his first term.

“We’re going to fight this tooth and nail, and we’re going to seek to uphold the constitutional principals that do not call for this expansion,” said Yasmin Cader, an ACLU deputy legal director and the director of its Trone Center for Justice and Equality.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-wants-expand-federal-death-penalty-setting-legal-challenges-seco-rcna178979

[BOSSHOG]

1. So Donny, should convicted felons at least be imprisoned?

[Traildogbob]

2. How about for

Treason and espionage from a President?

[bucolic_frolic]

3. But not for treason, amiright? /nt

[milestogo]

4. Yes, let's kill more people.

Great policy.

[mpcamb]

5. Put white collar crimes at the top of the list of violators who get the chair!

(He couldn't assemble a cabinet!)

[jmowreader]

15. The Chinese government has economic crimes on its list of capital offenses

Then again, the Chinese government has every other crime on its list of capital offenses.

[JoseBalow]

6. Private Prison Industries Prefer Prolonged Incarceration

Why kill the goose that lays the golden egg?

[Evolve Dammit]

7. Yeah that sounds like a solution.. Like Central Park Five that he wanted executed. Innocent. Still will not acknowledge

[markodochartaigh]

8. "He could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue

and not lose any voters", that's what people say. The reality is that his Strong Leader show of force energizes his authoritarian base. In the last months of his presidency Trump executed more federal prisoners on death row than any president in a century.

[Jack Valentino]

9. "Child rapists" ?? I can think of a prime "candidate" for ONE such execution....

eh, DonOLD ?

[Trueblue1968]

10. DonOLD Rump needs to put his name on the list of people who need to be executed.

[kerouac2]

11. I'm sure he'll think of a way for them to avoid that sentence...

Everyone loves gladiators...

[Jit423]

12. Does he realize that a fair number of his top donors might fit into one or more of these categories?

The tangled web of corporate entities, and sex, drug, and weapons trafficking will explode. But i am sure, there will be a wealth factor that would exempt anyone making over a million dollars per year.

[Irish_Dem]

14. The laws do not apply to white male politicians and billionaires.

They are free to rape, pillage, and loot to their hearts content.
And in fact the people will love them more for it.

[louis-t]

13. "These are terrible, terrible, horrible people

who are responsible for death, carnage and crime all over the country” he said of his future cabinet members and advisors.

[JI7]

16. Rapist means him but I guess he has immunity