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The administration of United States President Donald Trump has announced plans to expand the use of the federal death penalty, including through the deployment of firing squads.

The announcement on Friday was part of a policy document issued by the Department of Justice, setting out the legal argument for various methods of execution.

It touted steps for “restoring and strengthening” the death penalty as integral to the pursuit of justice.

“The Department of Justice acted to restore its solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences — clearing the way for the Department to carry out executions once death-sentenced inmates have exhausted their appeals,” the Justice Department said in a news release.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 166 points 1 week ago (7 children)
  1. Build massive secretive camps that house thousands and thousands of people

  2. Raise a personal gestapo to hunt down and disappear immigrants

  3. Pass laws that brand anyone left of Reagan as a domestic terrorist

  4. Call for more firing squads

  5. ???

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago

They don't call it fascist dystopia for no reason.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You forgot to profit between each step.

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

The last step is to privatize all the previous steps.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago
  1. Americans continue to do fuck all, giving it their tacit approval
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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 90 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Whenever capital punishment comes up, I am reminded of the hypocrisy of American Christians.

Pretty much every Christian claims to believe that killing is prohibited by the ten commandments. In a democracy, if you vote for a politician who supports the death penalty, you are asking them to kill a person on your behalf. A Christian should not be able to vote for a politician who supports the death penalty.

Compare that with abortion. The bible says virtually nothing about abortion except how to pray for one. If you vote for a pro-choice politician, nobody is being killed on your behalf.

Compare these two, and it's obvious that a Christian who votes for a pro-death-penalty and anti-abortion candidate is voting against their own religion. But they claim to be voting for Christian values, which is pure hypocrisy.

[–] leoj@piefed.social 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think we are reaching a point where its an open secret that the words of Jesus are purely marketing for Christianity and the reality is quite uglier.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm an atheist and I know not to subsume all of Christianity under white evangelicalism.

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[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

As someone raised in the church, but did not fall into white nationalism like so many Republicans, they will absolutely never be swayed by logic. They're literally brainwashed in a cult. Jesus is no different than a member of antifa to them. They only care about themselves, their cult, its leader, and seeing other people hurt. None of those things are in the ten commandments. If judgement day came today, every single one of them would have a reserved seat in a particularly nasty place in Hell.

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 74 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hope this is foreshadowing for the trump regime being executed as war criminals.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Firing squads are too clean, I want gallows, I want gallows run by someone who ain’t any count at running a gallows, so they all die in terrible ways

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 23 points 1 week ago

I think I read that some WW2 Nazi wanted to be killed by firing squad after Nuremberg, but they told him no. Firing squads are for soldiers. Hanging is for criminals, so he would hang.

[–] ReachMinusOne@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Sounds like we need to resurrect this guy. He was allegedly pretty terrible at his job, and several of the individuals he hanged did not die a quick death.

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nothing should be a clearer indication that the death penalty should not exist than lunatics like him controlling it.

[–] frightful5680@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's funny how all the countries with autocrats or legal corruption love the death penalty

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

also that countries that work to reduce violence like this and disparity is actually advancing. theory crafting societies of violence is just never going to work out in any long term way.

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If I supported capital punishment, I'd be in favor of firing squads over lethal injection. It's more honest. Shooting someone is clearly meant to kill while lethal injection dresses it up like a medical procedure.

I oppose capital punishment though. The criminal justice system is not reliable enough to only punish those truly guilty of the worst crimes, it doesn't seem to be a more effective deterrent than imprisonment, and it usually ends up costing more than imprisonment for an offender's natural lifespan.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I mean...

There's completely painless ways to die.

That's what the whole assisted suicide thing is in civilized countries.

The "problem" is, that's completely painless, you just go to sleep. And the people who want this, want it to be a painful gruesome death.

It's not justice or even removing an uncontrollable element, it's vengeance. And vengeance has to be painful.

There's nothing stopping an ethical death penalty except the ethics of the people implementing

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And the "can't take it back" aspect. Conviction and execution of innocent people does happen.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

For Republicans this is a feature, not a bug.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 13 points 1 week ago

I mostly am just against the state having the right to kill.

But innocent people being killed is definitely a top list issue.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There’s completely painless ways to die.

...

There’s nothing stopping an ethical death penalty except the ethics of the people implementing

This comment implies that the method of killing is the fundamental ethical problem with the death penalty. The killing part is the fundamental problem for me.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

...

Yes...

Any discussion on an ethical way to do something, is first predicted on the thing happening.

There's an ethical way to cut aomeone's leg off, that doesn't mean we should cut Bob's leg off, it doesn't even mean we should cut anyone's leg off under any circumstances.

Just that if we were going to do something, there are ways to do that ethically.

People really don't learn this shit anymore?

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Who would do the actual shooting though? For me this presents a problem. It can go two ways:

  • We have to employ someone that doesn't want to kill people, but does it anyway in an act of duty while suffering the psychological trauma every time they do their job.

Or even worse...

  • We have to employ someone that does want to kill people, and we're paying them to do it.
[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's actually why it's a squad.

A single executioner would be more than capable of delivering a killing shot. Hell, they could just shoot them in the head with a handgun.

The squad means that no one member knows if they're the one that actually delivered the killing shot.

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[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 week ago

Abolish the death penalty completely no reason to trust the state with this power.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope he does this, then the next president comes in and trump gets sentenced to death for treason lol.

Unlikely but a nice dream

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have absolutely no faith anyone will ever give these psychos any consequenses, especially not any democrat. That would mean they themselves would be open to consequenses, and that simply won't do for the ruling class. The worst that is ever going to happen to Trump through legal and peaceful means, is that he'll be sentenced to house arrest at Mar-a-lago, and even that is doubtful. Any other punishment will have to be done by the people.

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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago

He means Death Squads. Every Republican accusation was an admission of guilt.

[–] Jako302@feddit.org 28 points 1 week ago

And everyone on this side of the pond said I'm overreacting by calling trumps immigrant detention centers "concentration camps", but here we are. Even the Nazis didn't start as fast with their genocide as the orange turd seems to try.

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Will they start with child rapists?!

[–] frightful5680@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Nope just immigrants

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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In a two tiered justice system where the rich have no accountability I can't see this being problematic at all. America is a shit hole country now.

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[–] la508@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

The death penalty is anathema to civilised society.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trump should be met by a firing squad. I'm sure there would be lots of volunteers.

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I was gonna say, this is a choice that may backfire, so to speak.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can we start with the pedophiles?

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Sure, but only the poor ones.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago

I warned about this before the election. People thought I was crazy...

Republicans have literally been talking about this for years...

[–] Iamcanadian@piefed.ca 17 points 1 week ago

Searching for ways to go as low as possible, this orange administration. Very creative.

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Gee, I wonder if capital punishment is going to be recommended for "anti-American values", etc.

Totally no way that's going to happen.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 13 points 1 week ago

Death penalty is stupid because now ppl who Commit a crime will just all in.

Death for being a rally? Guess ill just commit to politicians instead

Death for aborting rapist baby. Guess ill kill the rapist and maybe a few morw while im at it.

Etc etc

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Shooting the pedos? Let’s start there.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

Suprised they're not at the point where they are looking to streamline executions by creating large multi-occupancy gas chambers.

But I guess even their role models started with firing squads, so nothing to see here...

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Let's start with them.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Again I ask.

Does anyone really think those camps are only for immigrants, or criminals?

Bullshit. They're for us.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Always a fucking day he comes up with an awful idea.

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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Need to make more room in the concentration camps, huh?

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