The Constitution frustrates Trump as it allows the death penalty, but not cruel and unusual punishment, so sentencing convicted criminals to death is not used as readily and flippantly as Trump would like. Tweety cannot fathom how other people feel.
Trump does not like due process, it is too slow. If it were up to Trump, many people would be executed quickly, and as a likely result, many innocent people would die needlessly. Why is "draft dodger" (multiple bone spur deferments), bullying (he picks on weak people; bullies are usually cowards) Trump in such a rush to kill?!
"Capital punishment in the United States
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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the United States, currently used by 30 states, the federal government, and the military.[1] Its existence can be traced to the beginning of the American colonies. The United States is the only Western country currently applying the death penalty.[2] It is one of 54 countries worldwide applying it, and was the first to develop lethal injection as a method of execution, which has since been adopted by five other countries.[3] The Philippines has since abolished executions, and Guatemala has done so for civil offences, leaving the USA one of 4 countries to use this method, along with China, Thailand, and Vietnam.
There were no executions in the United States between 1967 and 1977. In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down capital punishment statutes in Furman v. Georgia, reducing all death sentences pending at the time to life imprisonment.[4]
Subsequently, a majority of states passed new death penalty statutes, and the court affirmed the legality of capital punishment in the 1976 case Gregg v. Georgia. Since then, more than 7,800 defendants have been sentenced to death;[5] of these, more than 1,400 have been executed.[6] A total of 161 who were sentenced to death in the modern era were exonerated before their execution.[7][8] As of April 1st, 2018, 2,743 are still on death row.[9]"
"Trump's complicated past with the death penalty and due process"
By Ryan Struyk, CNN Updated 12:48 PM ET, Sun March 11, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/03/politics/death-penalty-trump/index.html
"Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump suggested imposing the death penalty for drug dealers at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday night, praising countries like China and Indonesia for their harsh punishments for drug offenses.
"When I was in China and other places, by the way, I said, 'Mr. President, do you have a drug problem? No, no, no, we do not. ... I said what do you attribute that to? Well, the death penalty,'" he recounted on Saturday night. "Honestly, I don't know that the United States frankly is ready for it. They should be ready for it.""
BS - Tweety didn't ask the President of China about drugs and the President of Chinadid not answer the question never asked. Truthful hyperbole, lying for what Tweety thinks is a good purpose.
"Trump has called for the death penalty more than a dozen times in the last five years, including:
- On Drew Peterson, who gained national headlines after the disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy, Trump tweeted to "change the law" and "bring back the death penalty!"
- Trump called for the "DEATH PENALTY!" in a tweet against the "deranged animals" who killed two police officers in Mississippi in 2015.
- He also tweeted that Jared Lee Loughner, who shot former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed a half dozen others in 2011, "should be given the death penalty, not his plea bargained life in prison -- which will cost the taxpayers many millions of dollars."
But it's not just the use of capital punishment that Trump has pushed for. He's also called for expediting the judicial process and hinted at skirting the justice system's due process and implementing more brutal methods of execution.
- In one tweet against the Aurora, Colorado, shooter James Holmes, who shot 82 people in a movie theater, Trump called for a "fast trial" and for lawmakers to "immediately pass speed up legbostoislation."
- On a gunman who shot and killed a former coworker at the Empire State Building in 2012, Trump recommended "fast trials and death penalty."
- In the case of Boston Marathon bomber, Trump tweeted for a "quick trial, then death penalty."
- After a string of missing children in October 2012, Trump called for "fast trial" and "death penalty" on Twitter.
But he's also entertained more gruesome methods of execution. He also called for a "very fast trial and then the death penalty" against "the animal" who beheaded a woman in Oklahoma in September 2014, then tweeting "the same fate - beheading?""
Now I see Tweety is studying Saudi Arabia.
"Capital punishment is legal in 31 states and the federal government, according to the National Conference for State Legislatures."
And the death penalty could kill innocent people, but Tweety doesn't care, he really, really doesn't care.
"Trump's support for the death penalty stretches back decades, when he ran multiple full-page ads in New York City newspapers in 1989 following the rape and assault of a Central Park jogger.
In the full-page ads, Trump said that "our society will rot away" until capital punishment is used more commonly. "I no longer want to understand their anger. I want them to understand our anger. I want them to be afraid," he wrote. "They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes.''"
The five black kids arrested for the crime were INNOCENT! Acquitted. But they were black and to Trump, black equates to guilty of crimes!
