Senator praises ‘law and order’ Trump for demanding death penalty for innocent teens

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory

One of the few senators to wholeheartedly back GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump praised the nominee as a “law and order” candidate for paying for an ad calling for the death penalty of five young men in their mid-teens who were wrongfully accused of raping a woman.

In an interview caught by Buzzfeed, southern Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) lauded Trump for his speech aimed at the African-American community Tuesday night in Wisconsin. “That speech was great, and Trump has always been this way,” Sessions told the hosts of the Matt & Aunie radio show.

“He bought an ad — people say he wasn’t a conservative — but he bought an ad 20 years ago in the New York Times calling for the death penalty,” he continued. “How many people in New York, that liberal bastion, were willing to do something like that? So he believes in law and order and he has the strength and will to make this country safer.”

Sessions was referring to an ad Trump took out in the New York Times over 20 years ago, with a bold headline reading “Bring the death penalty back!” aimed at the five young black and Hispanic men who were accused of raping a white woman who came to be known as the “Central Park jogger.”

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[underpants]

1. Come on down to Al Abama. We'll show y'all how to do the death penalty

Hell we used to do it right out in the street or pretty much anywhere we could find a good strong tree limb.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Meanwhile, Sessions missed the fact that they were all found innocent

and Drumpf refuses to this day, to apologize.

[Chemisse]

4. Ahhh, details - who needs 'em?

Trump's campaign is counting on people just going with the headline.

Underestimating the intelligence of the average voter is how Trump fell so low in the polls.

[Cal Carpenter]

14. Yeah, my first thought too. What a fucked up thing to praise someone for

For supporting the death penalty of 5 youths of color for something THEY DIDN'T DO.

Assholes. Sick, dangerous racist assholes in power. Ugh.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. And the sad thing is

they actually served time for this until finally exonerated and of course the city had to settle the subsequent lawsuits.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. She wasn't killed

Since when do we have the death penalty for rape?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Republicans believe burglary deserves the death penalty....

Hopefully carried out by their own gunz.

[alphafemale]

8. Actually, death penalty for an improper lane change.

Or having a tail light not working.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Death penalty for not releasing tax returns? Organizing violent demonstrations against US troops?

Lying about marriage on immigration forms?

Taking $13 million off the books to promote Russian goals against NATO?

Evading laws against foreign lobbying?

[Eugene]

7. Rape was a capital offense back in the bad old days.

But why let constitutional niceties get in the way of good old-fashioned race baiting?

[JustinL]

12. and the penalty was imposed in an extremely racist way

Of 455 people executed for rape between 1930 and 1968, 405 (89%) were black. See Justice Marshall's concurring opinion in Furman v Georgia, 408 U. S. 238, 364 (1972).

[graegoyle]

13. Dearh penalty for not being white and male.

[Major Nikon]

6. You can't make shit up this funny

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Funny? Five wrongly accused teens subject to calls for their deaths?

[Major Nikon]

11. Funny the dipshit GOPher thinks this is a great example of "law and order"

[whistler162]

16. Trump to Sessions......

"Jeff with friends like you, I don't need Hillary!"