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

[babylonsister]

There's A GOP Plan For An Execution Spree If Trump Wins The White House
Buried on page 554 of the plan is a directive to execute every remaining person on federal death row — and dramatically expand the use of the death penalty.
By Jessica Schulberg
May 9, 2024, 05:45 AM EDT


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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[BoRaGard]

1. Republicans are hot to piss on another of the Ten Commandments

[oldsoftie]

28. Its actually "You shall not murder/Do not murder" translated

the Bible doesn't condemn the death penalty.

[NanaCat]

33. Far from it

The deity demands murder, mass murder and genocide, on a regular basis.

[Aristus]

36. I get so sick of the rationalizations.

"Thou Shalt Not Kill" really means 'thou shalt not murder', unless it's war, or unless it's the death penalty, or unless, of course, you really want to.

Fairly shitty set of commandments, if you ask me.

[ScratchCat]

39. It's not a "rationalization"

It's a mis-translation of a word that really means the intentional taking of life with no justification. You don't have to agree with the Bible or the commandment to understand what its saying from a historical or cultural standpoint.

[JoseBalow]

43. Which word was mistranslated?

[Zeitghost]

46. Kill vs murder

Murder is always wrong. Killing is sometimes justified in situations that require violence to protect innocent victims from those trying to harm/kill them.

I won't weigh in on how that biblical principle applies to the death penalty which I support in theory but not in practice.

[JoseBalow]

49. I am asking which word has been allegedly "mistranslated"

I understand the difference between "kill" and "murder"

[Zeitghost]

50. The word murder has been mistranslated as kill

The literal translation is "Thou shall not murder".

[JoseBalow]

51. "The literal translation" of what? What is the word that is being mistranslated?

There is a word, in the bible, it is the source word in question, and that word has been supposedly mistranslated. That would be the word that is being "translated", correctly or not, from the source material.

Which word has the ambiguous meaning?

[Zeitghost]

52. Tirtsach

n/t

[JoseBalow]

53. That's right! And what is the translation of that word?

תִרְצַח means "murder", not "kill", which is a different word.

[oldsoftie]

41. You can lump them together all you want ; it doesnt make them the same.

The "Thou shall not kill" is simply a falsehood repeated over & over even though its NOT what is said. I'm not the one who brought the Bible into the conversation I merely replied to someone who did

[jmowreader]

54. Especially when you turn to Leviticus 20

And it specifically says to kill anyone you think worships Molech, anyone caught screwing a sheep, anyone you think fucked one of about eight different relatives, anyone you catch working on the Sabbath…so what is it, thou shalt not kill except about half of everyone you know?

[Elessar Zappa]

55. Good thing that our laws aren't supposed to be based on religious texts.

So the meaning of the commandment is irrelevant to the discussion.

[oldsoftie]

57. It was relevant to the poster I replied to.

And since we love to be moral on DU why be surprised its brought up/

[Elessar Zappa]

77. I wasn't criticizing your response.

I was just wondering why it was brought up.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

71. If trump wins

These psychopath zealots will insert religion into every aspect of government it’s in project 2025.

[oldsoftie]

78. I think they'll go even FURTHER.

[Diraven]

56. Then why didn't God tell us

Exactly what's murder and what's not murder?

[oldsoftie]

59. You'd have to ask him I guess. But our laws tell US the difference.

And as another person noted, we aren't supposed to make law based on religion.

[Crunchy Frog]

74. Murder is killing that's not legally sanctioned

Borh Biblically, and under secular law.

[Ping Tung]

65. The bible is jam packed with lies and false advertising. Not to mention a lot of blood letting.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Evil for evil's sake.

No other reason.

[Think. Again.]

29. Yep, and that's spelled R,I,G,H,T,W,I,N,G,E,R,S.

[mamacita75]

61. evil

and cruelty with immense suffering.

[Irish_Dem]

62. The cruelty is the part the GOP particularly enjoys.

They get off on it.

The more suffering the better.

Pure evil.

[lees1975]

3. This guy has to be beaten to the ground in the next election, along with his Congressional supporters.

Are the Democrats at the DNC taking this seriously? We're six months out and playing the election campaign pretty passively from where I sit. This guy needs to be convicted of all charges before the nomination, how do strings get pulled to achieve this?

[Wednesdays]

16. Um...we don't do that kind of thing.

Pull strings to get a conviction? How would you like it if that applied to a prominent Democrat?

[Farmer-Rick]

21. It's better to just let fascist forces in America

To be a hair's breath away from a mass killing spree, then for those who stand against fascism to pull some strings?

The stinking Nazi loves to kill. Look how he allowed all those Americans to die from COVID when other countries never got such a large percentage of deaths. The US death toll from COVID exceeded that of peer nations.

His plan is not to just kill current death row inmates but to gather up political enemies too.

Liberals in Germany played by the rules too. That didn't stop those Nazis and it's not going to stop these Nazis either. It's time to stack the deck.

[NanaCat]

34. You're confusing inaction with the media's failure to report

On what Democrats are doing to fight back.

That can look a lot like passivity to someone who can't distinguish the difference.

[Takket]

4. and alito will pull something out of his ass about how not killing all priosoners is not

a "deeply held tradition" or some such nonsense to justify it all in the majority opinion. if drumpf is elected, with a court that ignores all constitutional law in favor of doing whatever the heritage foundation donors tell them to do, kiss America goodbye.

[DBoon]

26. and Alito will quote some 16th century witch burner to support this

[gab13by13]

5. Wow,

Buried by the MSM, only Huffing Paste covering it?

Will the Magats do away with the appeals process for those on death row, apparently so.

Kristi Noem can be the executioner.

[underpants]

6. "American carnage" was a warning

[Liberal In Texas]

7. They're a bloodthirsty lot. They really like violence. This is a warning to us all.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Going all-out NAZI

“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

[bsiebs]

9. Do they include treason in their death list?

[flying_wahini]

10. I'm sure they don't. That would mean they all get the axe.

[JoseBalow]

44. Treason is in the eye of the beholder

[wnylib]

22. If only their planned curse on America would fall upon them instead.

[Eugene]

32. Count on them to define treason as opposition to the Drumpfenfuhrer.

That 950-page document stretches legal definitions to Orwellian extremes.
It already provides for civil rights prosecutions of state and local officials
who fail to support the MAGA crackdown. Must protect those poor, oppressed
White Christians from the corrosive influences of LGBT, CRT, feminism, ...

The Trumpian proposal to execute officials who leak to the press
easily falls within an authoritarian definition of treason.

[DENVERPOPS]

66. No treason!

and also missing is Pedophilia. Very interesting......LOL

[hadEnuf]

11. Does anybody still think these animals are not following in the footsteps of the Nazis?

This is America's future. It won't stop at convicted prisoners. They will continue to chip away at the stone. We can bank on it.

We have to fight these scum with everything we have while we still can.

They cannot be allowed to take power under any circumstances.

[JoseBalow]

45. We've already learned what it takes to defeat Nazis

What remains is a question of will.

[KS Toronado]

12. Wikipedia doesn't paint a pretty picture of project 2025

Quite the opposite, now if we could just get repugnuts to read it with an open mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

[Think. Again.]

31. LOL! open-minded repugs!

You're a hoot!

[NanaCat]

35. Wikipedia is not a reliable source for anything

So who cares what it says...about anything?

I mean it's okay as a starting point to get some minor information, because the footnotes are often far more accurate than most of the article content.

But as an overall source of knowledge for reference? No.

Just...no.

[et tu]

37. right? better to go

to facebook lol

[bdamomma]

76. Thanks for

posting Project 2025, it should be read by all, and reinforce that this criminal must not be near the WH.

No one will be safe.......

They want to gut everything ..................tRump is Putin's puppet to burn the country to the ground.

Here is another account of Project 2025. Believe what they say.

https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

[Botany]

13. Executing Human Traffickers?

Jeffery Epstein used Trump’s plane to move his sex slaves around and on the day when
Epstein killed himself he said that Trump had used his plane too.

Btw Trump reportedly ran escorts at his Atlantic City Casinos too.

[ashredux]

15. I'm pretty sure Jeffrey had some help. Just saying.

[Botany]

20. Both guards had fallen asleep and the video

cameras (both of them) just happened to break too.

[ashredux]

25. It makes you wanna go...Hmmmmmm 🤔

[lastlib]

23. Well, not THEIR human traffickers.............

Gotta service the masters..........

[wnylib]

24. Projection. To MAGAs, "human traffickers" means Dems, the people that

QAnon believers think engage in sex trafficking of young children. It also means migrants and asylum seekers on our southern border. The excuse that the MAGA administration gave for separating children from parents was to ensure that the children weren't being trafficked.

[The Mouth]

79. And they would probably extend it to people who help girls getting an abortion

[ashredux]

14. It's simple folks, when they tell you who they are, believe them !!!

[Turbineguy]

17. After which they can start skipping the trial.

[et tu]

38. trails take time and money

[Hotler]

18. The Christian Taliban is pushing this. nt

[NoMoreRepugs]

19. How about individuals sharing highly classified state secrets with foreign goverments - huh DiaperDon??

[Warpy]

27. Killing American citizens sounds like a great way for Republicans to celebrate

They can then swagger around and pat themselves on the backs for making the country safer for good Christians like them.

[markodochartaigh]

30. I think that

"I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any voters." is so often misunderstood. It is not a matter of "they don't care" about the killing.
The authoritarian Strong Leader executing people actually gins up support among authoritarian followers, it excites them to see the power of their Strong Leader.

For now, until the supreme court decides, extra judicial executions are off the table for a US president. The US president can't just go around shooting people like Duterte in The Philippines. Executions of death row inmates are the legal analog to shooting someone on 5th Avenue. Very public, a display of raw power.

And surely people remember that in the final days of Trump's first term he went on an execution spree. Where were the opus dei "Catholic" protests about the sanctity of life then?

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-trump-and-barrs-last-minute-killing-spree

[liberal N proud]

40. They will package it up as part of their moral values

They can twist anything to sell it to the ignorant

[drmeow]

42. OMG

I wish THEY would all just DIE THE F**K OFF!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

72. Wish

I feel the same I wish there was no more right wing ideologies that the whole party and all its members and maga believers alike would just vanish and never exist again.

[sakabatou]

47. They may as well go do the battle cry for Khorne now

Warhammer 40k reference.

[Peacetrain]

48. Here is my problem with that proposal they are making and the death penalty period.

How many innocent people have been released from death row or jail because people were able to prove their innocence.. in any number of ways, including DNA.. It is just a fact.. innocent people as well as the guilty are sitting in prison..

As long as that innocent person is in prison they will fight for their freedom. Because when an innocent person is convicted.. not only are they being punished but the guilty are running free todo whatever mayhem they want..

I just cant believe people cannot think things out. The death penalty is not a gift to anyone. Who in their right mind would want to live behind bars for the rest of their lives.. For the truly guilty, the death penalty is the easy way out..

[spanone]

58. trmp must love that stuff. the ultimate judge; life or death....evil bastard

[The Blue Flower]

60. Stalin 2.0

nt

[barbtries]

63. they never fail to shock me.

something that seems objectively wrong, like why would there even be an argument over this. it's on me though, i have said before that there is no bottom for them. i'm still shocked when they prove me right.

[Evolve Dammit]

64. Cruelty and vengeance in God's name will carry the day. Cult 45. Nt

[DENVERPOPS]

67. It has been proven

it is far cheaper to pay for life in prison with no parole, than pursuing the death penalty.....

Also, Life with no parole, is far worse to most people than the death penalty......Just ask McVeigh......

[soldierant]

68. And he keeps saying there'll be a bloodbath if he loses.

And I keep saying but nothing compared to the bloodbath ther'll be if he wins.

[GenThePerservering]

69. The "bloody code" did not work when it was enacted

and it won't work now. The death penalty is not a deterrent to crime.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

70. Every

Bloodthirsty psychopath that can still vote will vote for trump. Every rage-aholic,Narcissist,
every fascist,Christian “soldier”,every rapist, abuser ,pedophile ,hater and so called alpha will vote for trump to live out their sick sordid abuse/ kill fantasies. Trump gives them the rationale and permission they seek (as in he won’t tell them to stop) and they think trump and his ilk people like themselves will only slap thier wrists when they kill or rape or torture “the right kind of people”. These degenerates have been itching to kill. The death penalty is only the beginning to these monsters.

[DFW]

75. Republicans have mostly tended toward Pro-Death in recent years

They like killing.

Just ask the current governor of South Dakota.