Trump Trying to Reinstate Execution by Firing Squad Before He Leaves Office, Says Report
Source: The Daily Beast
There have been many predictionsfrom instigating nuclear war to pardoning Joe Exoticabout what President Donald Trump might do during his final months in office, but its fair to say few people guessed this.
According to a report from ProPublica, Trump is trying to rush through a proposed regulation that could see federal executions being carried out by firing squads again. The proposed rule cleared White House review on Nov. 6, according to the report, so it could be finalized any day. However, the archaic method may never be usedall five scheduled federal executions are expected to be carried out with lethal injection, and President-elect Joe Biden opposes the death penalty.
Elsewhere in the report, its stated that Trump is also trying to push through a regulation that would exclude transgender people from federally funded homeless shelters and loosen water-saving standards on showerheadsa personal grievance the president has frequently railed about to rally crowds.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-trying-to-reinstate-execution-by-firing-squad-before-he-leaves-office-says-report
Walleye
(31,008 posts)and it will take months, maybe even years for that Secretary to root out the trump-miller rats infesting our government
Rhiannon12866
(205,195 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,195 posts)Turbineguy
(37,318 posts)to execute him and his enablers.
Paladin
(28,252 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)by Firing Squad.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Unless he thinks it might be a more pleasant way to go, compared to, say, living out his days in a former baby-jail, eating moldy bread, drinking toilet water, and sleeping on a concrete floor.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)Grimelle
(219 posts)From the Non-COVID infected bleachers.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...for his heirs? Who may find themselves in a similar spot...
llashram
(6,265 posts)so evilly depraved
FailureToCommunicate
(14,012 posts)klook
(12,154 posts)mahina
(17,644 posts)onetexan
(13,036 posts)dalton99a
(81,450 posts)Donald Trump wants to see blood - lots of blood - squirting, gushing blood
Hekate
(90,644 posts)You first. Sir.
tanyev
(42,550 posts)chowder66
(9,067 posts)gibraltar72
(7,503 posts)I believe one execution in particular I would volunteer for. Special situations require special actions.
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)Why not bring back gladiator combat in a big stadium? Or throw in a couple hungry lions.
birdographer
(1,323 posts)the guillotine in the town square. That was a very popular one.
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)Drumpf had his feelings hurt by Emmanuel Macron a couple times. Freedom fries!
birdographer
(1,323 posts)I was just riding on the gladiator comment. I don't think we had those, either. Russell Crowe isn't even American!
Lock him up.
(6,925 posts)LOCK.EM.UP & (open fire?)
hlthe2b
(102,225 posts)he's hauled out--even to the point of short-circuiting final appeals.
LiberalArkie
(15,713 posts)Boomer
(4,168 posts)A hail of bullets isn't going to leave you many undamaged organs. Heart and lung will be torn up. I guess you might recover a kidney or two and the corneas.
Marcuse
(7,479 posts)oldsoftie
(12,531 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,713 posts)are available. Put the person in a chair the the headrest has the shell and the firing team each press a button but only one works. Clean and effective and organs safe. But it is messy.
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)oldsoftie
(12,531 posts)*hand raised*
Although the law should be changed to prevent ANY chance of innocents executed.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"Although the law should be changed to prevent ANY chance of innocents executed."
And how specifically is a zero-error system accomplished?
Or are we simply wishing aloud?
oldsoftie
(12,531 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Don't forget the flush toilets !
Trump's told us he has to flush his toilet 5 or 6 times to get his shit down the pipe.
JudyM
(29,233 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)But that doesn't change the fact that there's no federal law forcing anyone to use low-flow showerheads TTBOMK.
There may some state laws requiring them, esp. in times of drought, at least in hotels, motels, probably public housing, that sort of thing. Some states may ban the sale in stores of showerheads that exceed a certain level, not sure on that. But for sure if you really want a full-flow showerhead, you can put one in your own house and you're not gonna get fined or arrested or anything.
Course I'm sure he stays in hotels so much, so he very frequently finds low flow heads, hence his whining ... but I'm pretty sure that most hotels use them BECAUSE IT SAVES THEM MONEY not because there's some federal law mandating it. Could be wrong, but ...
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Don't forget the flush toilets !
Trump's told us he has to flush his toilet 5 or 6 times to get his shit down the pipe.
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)by firing squad a fantasy he has in terms of punishing his political "enemies?"
Bayard
(22,059 posts)His greatest dream would is to see Biden, Obama, and Hillary Clinton gunned down. On national TV.
Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)firing squads as a cheap and easy means to execute as many of his political enemies as he can, as fast as he can.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....ruled decades ago that firing squad, hanging, and other methods of execution was "cruel and inhuman punishment", which is why they went to lethal injections.
If he's successful, may he be the first to be punished in that manner after he's convicted if treason.
former9thward
(31,981 posts)In fact, the firing squad is probably the most humane. It is instant and pain free, unlike any of the rest. If someone was going to kill me that is the method I would choose.
LeftInTX
(25,253 posts)Trump is doing this for "shock value" and to "fire up his base"
Sorry, I will take my execution like I do my surgery: "Just put me to sleep"...
It's all about perception.
William Seger
(10,778 posts)... and so is every last Trump voter, whatever their excuse.
truthisfreedom
(23,145 posts)Again and again it's been proven that it's far more expensive to execute someone (18 times in California!) than to sentence them to life in prison. The burden of proof and all of the legalities put millions of dollars into lawyers' pockets. Meanwhile, incarceration costs are fixed and limited to a lifetime. The punishment of lifetime imprisonment is horrifying. There's also the possibility of redemption.
There's also the possibility of innocence.
Botany
(70,490 posts)But if Trump is found guilty of treason and the homicide of over 1/4 million Americans
then Trump can have a chair, leather straps, a blindfold, straw bales, a brick wall, and
an appointment @ dawn.
niyad
(113,259 posts)his loyalists are sentenced for their crimes.
bringthePaine
(1,728 posts)Texin
(2,594 posts)FFS, hasn't he done enough egregious shit for a lifetime by now?
Submariner
(12,503 posts)Ziggysmom
(3,406 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Take your crazy, and hit the bricks, Mr. President.
bluestarone
(16,906 posts)a LIVE 220 volt cord in EACH HAND!!
jmowreader
(50,553 posts)First they would shave his head and legs. Next, they would attach an electrode (using conductive gel, no sponges anymore) to the top of his head and one leg. And to finish the job, they use a cycle that goes from 3000 volts to 500 volts...IIRC its a minute at 3000, a minute at 500, they turn off the power and check for signs of life, and if hes not dead they give him more cycles until he is.
bluestarone
(16,906 posts)I prefer my way! I'm sure the end result will be the SAME!
Paladin
(28,252 posts)Better jackoff material for him.
highplainsdem
(48,967 posts)doctorzuma
(44 posts)Last edited Wed Nov 25, 2020, 01:57 PM - Edit history (1)
providing the law stimulates it only applies to the 45th President of the United States. (But only if he is found guilty of crimes worth of such punishment by a United States Court of Law). I bet we can find lots of supporters for this practice!!!
JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)Especially with the possible stain of treason on him.
JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)And he's on a campaign to enlist the fringes into MAGA for some as yet unseen reason.
He may be running again, he may want a hit TV show, or maybe he just craves the adulation and doesn't want to fade away, but he's recruiting a bigger following.
Harker
(14,012 posts)It's a perverted "gift" of phony legitimacy to his gun-obsessed base.
sdfernando
(4,930 posts)Probably will have volunteers up the yazoo for that!
As to the showerhead thing, my guess is it takes a lot of time to wash that rotund figure and he doesn't want to be away from twitter too long.
Fla Dem
(23,650 posts)infullview
(981 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)Harker
(14,012 posts)A re-setting of the precedent that will bolster future arguments about the importance and legitimacy of unfettered gun ownership.
Or maybe he thinks his terrorist followers who live by the gun should be able to die by the gun.
Such heroism.
I'm well beyond sick of trying to twist my mind to understand what these sickos ate thinking.
NNadir
(33,512 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)What's next? A vendetta against tropical fruits?
TryLogic
(1,722 posts)Or a distraction? Watch out for what he is doing that flies under the radar. Rachel is onto this phenomenon with examples - like destroying Open Skies Treaty surveillance planes.
mikelgb
(6,021 posts)Nitram
(22,791 posts)firing squad for high treason.
MurrayDelph
(5,293 posts)* (pui pui pui)
kimbutgar
(21,130 posts)This is hilarious.
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)Have death by firing squad for things like driving while black.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)rhiannon55
(2,671 posts)and the best way to go out with a BANG in front of millions of adoring fans would be by firing squad. Maybe he thinks it'll be worth it for the ratings.
And anyway, what's the point of living if he can't be the king he's always known himself to be? Poor widdle narcissist.
NEOBuckeye
(2,781 posts)Be careful what you wish for, Donnie.
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)yeah, let's reverse innovate everything. Let's go back to when things were great. Like cholera, typhoid, civil war, smallpox, polio ... life was GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)over people. I cannot wait for this sicko to be out of the White House.
WhiteTara
(29,703 posts)who invented the electric chair died in their inventions. trump might get his own firing squad for treason, should the jury say it's so.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)If you needed any further evidence to make you believe that he, reality and common sense have all parted ways, this could certainly qualify.
I heard that, later this week - probably News Dump Friday - he is going to announce a pogrom against tropical fruit, because f them.
Orrex
(63,203 posts)Well, who am I to argue with the President of the United States of America?
Response to Mrs. Overall (Original post)
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TomDaisy
(1,870 posts)W T F
(1,146 posts)Paul Politerude
(34 posts)Hekate
(90,644 posts)Up against the wall, motherfucker.
The more genteel version: You first. Sir.
Gods save us from this death cult.
klook
(12,154 posts)Artist rendering of how the Circus of Nero looked, 54 AD 68 AD
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)Hekate
(90,644 posts)You first, Sir.
jmowreader
(50,553 posts)If there HAVE to be executions, lethal injection is absolutely the wrong way to do it.
The first problem is you can't get the most important part of the drug cocktail - the stuff that knocks you out so you don't know you're being killed. For reasons I don't know, all the general anesthetic used in this country is made in Europe. Europe has strict regulations against helping in executions, and they've already stopped exporting one important anesthetic to the US out of fear it'll wind up in a prison killing someone. (They also almost stopped shipping Propofol to the US because a Missouri prison was accidentally shipped five vials of it and the first thing they thought was, "Cool! Now we can execute five prisoners!"
The second problem is anyone who knows shit about anesthesia is ethically prohibited from participating in an execution. Texas found some way to train its executioners how to do it, but most states...it would be more humane to get Donny Donowitz from Inglourious Basterds to beat the prisoners to death with a baseball bat than to give them an Oklahoma-style lethal injection.
On the other hand, if you shoot someone in the heart with five rifles, they die right then. And we can also learn from the French: the French government wanted to ban execution a lot sooner than they ultimately did, but the population said it had to continue and "with this new lethal injection process, their deaths will be peaceful and painless." So the government decided to keep the guillotine, on the grounds that juries would be less likely to sentence someone to be chopped in half than to get a little needle poke in the arm and fall asleep forever. Turns out they were right - juries wouldn't sentence someone to be chopped in half even for the most brutal murders.
Besides, if we HAVE to stand the entire Trump administration up against the wall, it would be really helpful if Trump himself made it possible.
And as for those fucking shower heads...Don, you do realize you're supposed to remove your makeup BEFORE you get in the shower, right?
Iris
(15,652 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Its less than 2 months now.
louis-t
(23,292 posts)melman
(7,681 posts)Obviously not. There is no such thing as a humane execution.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,302 posts)So, WTF?
FailureToCommunicate
(14,012 posts)(Note: do NOT share this suggestion with Trump please)
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)wackadoo wabbit
(1,166 posts). . . I'm proven wrong.
Of all the things I thought that Trump would attempt during the interregnum, reinstating execution by firing squad just never occurred to me.
Withywindle
(9,988 posts)of the Central Park Five?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case
(Teenagers who were later EXONERATED. They DIDN'T DO IT.)
Trump has never admitted he was wrong. He never apologized. He never took a single minute to reflect on the fact that he spent money to call for the killing of 5 innocent kids.
He's got a sadistic execution fetish. Especially when the victims are Black or Brown.
I really recommend Ava DuVernay's drama series When They See Us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_They_See_Us
Martin Eden
(12,863 posts)This is a manifestation of Trump's mental pathologies in being kicked out of office -- lashing out with CRUELTY while he still has the power of the office.
To glimpse the "soul" of this creature is to stare into the abyss.