Trump running on more executions! REALLY!

“Trump’s plan for a second term includes firing squads, hangings, and group executions”, wrote journalist Rafi Schwartz, in The Week magazine. Trump has reportedly been polling his advisors on whether he should have an ‘execution revival’ of older methods, even suggesting death by guillotine, if he is re-elected. Trump, with his “killer political instincts” has expressed interest in “creating a government-ad campaign to highlight his administration’s lethality”, appealing to those whom would resonate with his ‘Hitler-like progroms’. “During Trump’s final months in office, he oversaw the executions of 13 federal prisoners. Since 1963, only 3 federal prisoners had been executed. In January 2021, before Biden took office, Trump oversaw 3 executions within 4 days”, from Rolling Stone magazine article by Asawin Suebsaeng & Patrick Reis. “Lethal injection was the only permissible federal method of execution, but the Trump administration’s new rules made federal firing squads more feasible. Trump favored the death by firing squad method, proposing they send the bullet used, to the deceased prisoner’s family, and making them pay for the bullet.” Former Attorney General Barr stated that if Trump had won re-election in 2020, their administration had planned to oversee many more executions.

If re-elected Trump wants to expand the federal death penalty, bringing back older methods, and “he has suggested televising footage of executions, showing condemned prisoners in the final moments of their lives, and showing their executions, as he wants to put the fear of God into violent criminals”. Trump’s answer to the drug epidemic is: “he wants the death penalty extended to drug dealers”. Trump and his advisors “are planning campaign rhetoric and policy desires”; they plan to create flashy campaign videos to arouse his followers. “Journalist, Oliver Willis, called it the kind of fascist-shite Republican primary voters love.” Will this strong campaign message against crime bring Trump more true followers? Remember his first Law & Order campaign? (Kind of like Richard M. Nixon’s; yeah, he wasn’t really about law & order either.) I remind folks to think about all the outrageous stances and deplorable actions that occurred during Trump’s administration, the children separated from their parents at the border, and housed in cages (some never reunited with their families); the disregard for laws and norms of the presidency; the lowering of our standard & respect among our allies and the U.S, under Trump’s so-called leadership; all the scandals, court cases, and criminal activities that have come to light regarding & involving Donald J. Trump. I believe some of the decline in our society can be directly attributed to the lawless, disrespectful, misogynistic, racist behaviors and attitudes fostered & given permission for by DJT. Let’s not repeat that terrible mistake that has cost our society much of the gains we had won in the past several decades, and the freedoms & liberties that American veterans have fought for, and many died for. Let’s not further tear our country apart; let’s stand for diversity, equality, compassion, understanding, and grow a stronger America together in the 21st century!

Trish Forsyth Voss