Restoring The Death Penalty And Protecting Public Safety – The White House
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

In addition to pursuing the death penalty where possible, the Attorney General shall, where consistent with applicable law, pursue Federal jurisdiction and seek the death penalty regardless of other factors for every federal capital crime involving:

(i)   The murder of a law-enforcement officer; or

(ii)  A capital crime committed by an alien illegally present in this country.

The Attorney General shall encourage State attorneys general and district attorneys to bring State capital charges for all capital crimes with special attention to the crimes described in Subsections (i) and (ii), regardless of whether the federal trial results in a capital sentence.

  • Kayday@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 hour ago

    So the implication, not letter, of the 2nd ammendment gives US citizens the right to shoot cops if they are acting as an extension of a tyrannical state. I wonder if there is a case to be made that this executive order infringes on the constitution.
    Of course, I don’t expect any 2A stans to care.

  • Kagu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    57 minutes ago

    That second line is the first bit of result after over a year of both parties fearmongering about “the immigrant crisis”. Deeply racist and violent country I hate this shit so much.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    25·
    4 hours ago

    pursue Federal jurisdiction and seek the death penalty regardless of other factors

    That’s terrifying but seems badly written from a practical standpoint. If the AG is compelled to always go for death regardless of other factors it may sway juries to not convict in more cases where the death penalty really isn’t deserved, and let free somebody who might have otherwise spent a reasonable (note: I say reasonable by the standards of our sick and twisted justice system) amount of time in prison.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      31·
      4 hours ago

      Actually that’s how I read this. So you’re already going to die. Might as well take out as many of them as possible.

      In Minecraft.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
      25·
      4 hours ago

      They receive the worst possible punishment for cop: paid leave for 3 months, and then forced to apply at a different police district a town over.

  • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
    852·
    7 hours ago

    So, by this decree, the maga ass hats that killed the cops on J6 should be put to death, right? Right???

    • Kayday@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 hour ago

      Unfortunately none of the families of cops that died from Jan 6 trauma were able to have it classified as “line of duty,” as far as I’m aware.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      20·
      7 hours ago

      It will be selectively enforced. Oath Keepers and Proud Boys who beat cops using their “patriotic” flagpoles will be allowed to go free. Those less white will be executed in the street for masking a cop feel uncomfortable. Those who attempt to defend themselves from fascists trying to send their families to concentration camps will be executed in the camps.

  • Harry@lemmy.world
    53·
    7 hours ago

    I thought the word “alien” was just some sarcastic paraphrasing.

    It isn’t. They really used the word alien.

    • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
      121·
      6 hours ago

      Nah, it’s a legal term. I would guess it’s where we get aliens in the outer space concept as the word existed well before. Yeah 13th to 14the century. The spaceman version is from the 1950s (edit: per etymonline)