should the Central Park Five buy a full page ad in the New York Times asking for Trump's execution

[IcyPeas]

Would it be ok if the Central Park Five bought a full page ad in the New York Times asking for Trump’s execution for espionage?

Link to tweet

In 1989, Mr. Trump placed full-page advertisements in four New York City newspapers, including The New York Times, calling for the state to adopt the death penalty for killers. He made clear that he was voicing this opinion because of the rape and assault of Trisha Meili, a woman who had been jogging in Central Park.

“I want to hate these murderers and I always will,” Mr. Trump wrote in the May 1989 ad. “I am not looking to psychoanalyze or understand them, I am looking to punish them.”

He wrote in all caps: “Bring back the death penalty and bring back our police!”

[CrispyQ]

1. I'd donate to help pay for that. -nt

[brooklynite]

2. I remember when the Death Penalty was something people here rejected...

Is it okay as long as the person put to death is someone we don't like?

[sarisataka]

5. It never has been completely rejected

[DeeDeeNY]

3. When DNA evidence proved the Central Park Five were innocent

Trump proclaimed they were still guilty!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-central-park-five-are-guilty/

[Archae]

6. It was pretty obvious why Trump said this.

The guy who actually did rape the woman was white. (AFAIK)

The Central Park 5 were black and Latino.

Trump has always been a racist swine, and always will be.

[FakeNoose]

4. To my way of thinking, the NYT owes them a free full page ad

[Delmette2.0]

12. That was my first thought.

Thank you.

[malaise]

7. Yes

That is all

[BigMin28]

8. They should

But the New York Times would never run such ad.

[keithbvadu2]

9. The police that Trump's insurrectionists were attacking and trying to kill and gouge out their eyes

The police that Trump's insurrectionists were attacking and trying to kill and gouge out their eyes on Jan 6?

[live love laugh]

10. Can we help them do that? * fingers crossed *

[LowerManhattanite]

11. If you were of age and a person of color...

…in NYC at the time this vermillion viper ran around town like some sort of boy playing God, you’ll remember how that despicable ad inflamed sh*t here to where a full generation later, he knows he can’t walk these streets here and NOT know that he is still actively reviled for that “ad”.

Do I think they should take out an ad like that? Of course not. It’d be pure hyperbole. But I can see the Swiftian point in considering it as a thought exercise. And this mendacious little man called for state-sanctioned murder of those five innocent people, and I would wholly support helping to pay for an ad where they called for him to be incarcerated and seriously punished for his deeds since then. ESPECIALLY if he engaged in espionage / selling secrets that compromised (got killed) human assets “in the field.”

He did willfully, gleefully stoke tensions here to the point where those young men couldn’t get a fair trial and they spent vast chunks of their adolescent into adult lives locked up behind bars in the city for a crime they did not commit.

So yeah. I can definitely see a “desire” for retribution on an emotional level.

Complaining though about the idea of such an ad is pure pearl-clutchery, IMHO.