Death Becomes Him

Donald Trump is upset he won't get to kill more people

Sixteen people on death row have been executed by the federal government since June 11, 2001. Out of those 16, 13 were executed during the Trump administration and they were all carried out during his last six months in office. He probably saw that time was running out to do everything horrible on his horrible-things-to-do list. In addition to those 13, he watched hundreds of thousands of Americans die from Covid while he was lying about bleach and hydroxychloroquine.

The death penalty doesn’t work. You don’t know if it’s a worse punishment than life in prison because we don’t know if there’s life after death. Nobody is an expert on it. Executing a murderer might be doing the killer a favor. It also doesn’t deter people from committing murder and the proof is that there are still murders. If the death penalty worked, there would only be murders in blue states but yet for some reason, people are still being murdered in Florida and Texas.

President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences for 37 people on death row, leaving three others to be executed by Donald Trump who will do so gleefully, except maybe Dylan Roof, the Confederate-flag-loving racist fuck who shot up a Black church. The others whose sentences were not commuted are Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon Bomber, Robert Bowers, who shot up a Pittsburgh Synagogue, and the guy who wrote the Kars4Kids jingle.

Biden issued a statement saying, “Guided by my conscience … I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.” He’s right. Governments should not be killing people.

If your child draws on your wall, you don’t punish him by drawing on the wall. How do we teach people that killing is bad by killing people? It’s inhumane and hypocritical.

Five nations have committed 88 percent of state-sponsored executions on this planet. They are China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and…the United States. That’s not a good list to be on. Our incoming president (sic) oversaw more executions than the last ten presidents combined before his first term. I wonder if Trump giggled with Kim Jong Un about his executions which involved being shot with an anti-aircraft gun, being torn apart by dogs, and poisoning his half-brother in another nation.

Donald Trump really likes killing people. It makes him feel like a tough guy and a king stating “off with their heads.” On Christmas Day, he posted on social media “Go to Hell” to the 37 who had their death sentence commuted, which I’m sure traumatized each of them.

A lot of Trump supporters are accusing Biden of siding with murderers, but he didn’t free them from prison, just death row. Their sentences were commuted to life in prison. They will all leave prison in body bags.

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton said, “When given the choice between law-abiding Americans or criminals, Joe Biden and the Democrats choose criminals every time.” Again, Biden did not free the murderers.

Heather Turner, whose mother was killed in a 2017 bank robbery, said, the commutations were a "gross abuse of power" and that President Biden and his supporters “have blood on their hands.” How is it an abuse of power? Was it an abuse of power when Trump pardoned criminals like Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort, and Roger Stone, people who could have testified against him? How does Biden have “blood on his hands?” He didn’t kill anyone and he didn’t help anybody kill anyone.

Trumpers don’t bother to think about the stupid shit they say before they say it.

The good news is, Trump can’t reverse Biden’s ruling. Neener-neener.

Trump doesn’t want to just execute murderers. He wants to execute immigrants for crimes that U.S. citizens don’t get the death penalty for, like drug dealing. Don’t forget he placed full-page ads calling for the executions of the Central Park Five, who were innocent Black and Latino teenagers accused of rape, During his one debate with Kamala Harris, Trump claimed the teens admitted guilt and the victim was killed, with both of those claims being lies. Trump sues people he claims lies about him.

Trump wants to kill some Black and Brown people. Unfortunately for Trump, President Biden only left White people on the federal death row.

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