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Trump's Executions Drive

Skeptic Ginger said:
From her attorney: “The craven bloodlust of a failed administration was on full display tonight.”
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And clearly so, when the appeal took place in record time after the fist judge issued a stay for competency proceedings.

Skeptic Ginger said:
After a 6-3 SCOTUS decision not to grant a stay. So all those pieces of **** anti-abortion SCOTUS justices don't think God minds if we kill adults.

******* hypocrites.
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I guess they were keen to show Donny how much they love him, and nothing says "I love you" like murdering a woman.

There's no irony in soldiers claiming PTSD as an excuse for their crimes while a woman whose like has been infinitely more damaging than theirs is not.

Sickening.
 
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So now Trump's bloodlust continues. Yes, these are criminals who have committed horrendous, senseless crimes.

The federal execution of convicted murderer Dustin John Higgs has been carried out, marking the final death sentence to be completed by the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump.

Higgs, 48, was pronounced dead at 1.23am on Saturday after receiving a lethal injection of pentobarbital in the federal death chamber at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Higgs conspired with two other men to kidnap and murder three young women in Washington DC on one night in January 1996.
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The crime was committed in 1996 and he was now 48 so he was 24 at the time and has spent a large part of the intervening years in prison.

He claims he is innocent of conspiring to murder:

His lawyers have argued it is 'arbitrary and inequitable' to execute Higgs while Willis Haynes, the man who pulled the trigger in the murders, was spared a death sentence. In his final words, Higgs protested that he was innocent of masterminding the murders.

'I'd like to say I am an innocent man,' he said, strapped to the gurney in the execution chamber. 'I did not order the murders.'

As the injection was administered, loud sobs of a woman crying inconsolably echoed for several minutes from a room reserved for Higgs' family, as his eyes rolled back in his head, showing the whites of his eyes before he stopped moving entirely.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...13th-final-federal-execution-Trumps-term.html

It is appalling that an impeached incumbent President should still have the power to ride roughshod over today's standards. Totally ruthless.
 
zooterkin said:
Another article trying to understand why it’s happening.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-trump-and-barrs-last-minute-killing-spree
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Hmmm:

“President Trump ensured total justice for the victims of an evil killer,” the campaign told supporters. “With the Trump administration slated to administer total justice to three more child murderers and rapists in the coming weeks, Biden should explain why they should be protected from paying the ultimate price for their evil, horrific crimes.”
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Only four more days to go and I think Higgs will have the ignominy of the being the last man executed in the USA.
 
Vixen said:
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Only four more days to go and I think Higgs will have the ignominy of the being the last man executed in the USA.
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Trump would celebrate his own execution if only eyes could see.
 
Vixen said:
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Only four more days to go and I think Higgs will have the ignominy of the being the last man executed in the USA.
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Very unlikely, since several states are still using the death penalty. He could be the last person executed by the federal USA rather than an individual state (but I wouldn't put money on it).
 
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In the article Trump says he wanted to aim for the killers of the weak and vulnerable, people who killed little children and raped women (You could say he himself has targetted the weak and vulnerable, prisoners already incarcerated for endless years, going through excruciating appeals one after another, hope against hope.) It strikes me as anomalous that the two recent guys put to death didn't actually pull the trigger themselves - although that is no excuse for their participation in what they knew was wrong and illegal - whilst a monster like Frederick Baer in Indiana gets his heinous murder and rape of a mother and her young daughter conviction commuted to two life sentences. In his case, he planned and calculated the crime, knocking on the woman's door and asking for water, rather than in the heat of the moment. Well, good for him dying in prison with his various cats. It shouldn't vary from state to state IMV.
 
ponderingturtle said:
It also became a family business in some cases

"For over 200 years the Grossholtz or Grosholtz family worked as executioners in France and Germany. Often the children would follow in the father's footsteps. This is how the family dynasty came about. As far as I can tell the family lived in the village of Landser where the first executioner resided."

http://memorykeepernotes.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-family-business-executioner.html
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In France the Sanson family served the kings for generations, and continued work after the Revolution.
 
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