Lame-Duck Executions
With a pandemic raging, and tens of thousands of persons dying each week, these executions are largely being ignored.
December 04, 2020 at 01:21 PM
6 minute read
One of the grisliest and most underreported stories about the final days of Donald Trump's malignant presidency is the feverish attempt by Trump and his cronies to execute as many persons as possible before he leaves office. These "lame duck executions" are horrifying. But with a pandemic raging, and tens of thousands of persons dying each week, these executions are largely being ignored.
Consider this: Before Trump's presidency only three persons were executed by the federal government in the past 50 years. But in July, as the presidential election was gearing up, Trump suddenly ordered federal executions to resume. Since July, eight persons have been put to death, and five more executions are scheduled in the coming weeks. There have been more federal executions this year than state executions. No president in America history has presided over more executions in such a short period of time.
Trump's brutal and inhumane worldview, as recounted by his niece Mary Trump, is memorably captured by his father's statement that he wanted his eldest son to be a "killer." Indeed, Trump has always had an obsession with the death penalty. His infamous ad in New York newspapers on May 1, 1989, to "BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY" came in the wake of the controversial convictions of five black teenagers for raping a jogger in Central Park. "They should suffer," Trump's ad proclaimed. Trump told a CNN interviewer shortly after the ad was published that he "hates" anyone who commits sexual assault. "Hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done," he said. Even though the teenagers were exonerated, Trump has always insisted they were guilty. Trump has endorsed the death penalty for drug kingpins, and praised Philippines dictator Rodrigo Duterte for his brutal use of the death penalty against enemies of his regime.
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