• gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world
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    If he’s actually put to death, he’ll become a martyr. Saint Luigi Mangione. If this doesn’t spark a revolution, we’re fucking toast. I hate this fucking timeline.

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    Trump, in an executive order: “The Government’s most solemn responsibility is to protect its citizens from abhorrent acts, and my Administration will not tolerate efforts to stymie and eviscerate the laws that authorize capital punishment against those who commit horrible acts of violence against American citizens.”

    Abhorrent acts like denying over 1/4 of healthcare coverage claims? Abhorrent acts like demanding surgeons scrub out and immediately call back the insurer to justify the surgery that they were in the middle of performing?

    No, of course not.

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      By his own decree his 2020 administration should be facing capitol punishment for acts of federal agents in Portland and other cities during peaceful protests over unrest at the time.

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      Trump wasn’t talking about Luigi, his act was about supplying lethal injection drugs to states with pending executions. Luigi hasn’t received any sentencing.

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    Good. They should try to get the death penalty which will put the jury under the maximum pressure to nullify.

    I wonder if some of the legal fund can be used for public service announcements to educate the public on jury nullification. IIRC judges don’t like to hear that kinda talk in court.

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      Biden had the chance with the backing of the supreme court and their ruling on “official actions” on top of the already strong legal case, but he didn’t because the ruling class sticks together no matter how much they talk about “danger to democracy”.

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        The past has no meaning. We are moving past what already happened and trying to resolve today’s issues in the moment. IDC who did what and its time we started getting along and working together to protect what’s left of our country and the freedoms we fought wars for. Make the current regime the suckers and the losers and let them argue, not us.

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    President Donald Trump ordered the attorney general to pursue the death penalty “for all crimes of a severity demanding its use” in an executive order signed January 20. The order ended the moratorium on federal executions enacted by former President Joe Biden’s administration.

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    Question: Will “The Government’s most solemn responsibility is to protect its citizens from abhorrent acts” be on the gates to the concentration camps?

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    The wealthy will make an example out of him. Meanwhile, they will continue holding up Daniel Penny as the right kind of extrajudicial murderer.