BREAKING: Barr orders federal executions to resume after two-decade hiatus

[StarfishSaver]

These people are evil to the bone.

The Justice Department announced Thursday that it plans to resume executing prisoners awaiting the death penalty, ending almost two decades in which the federal government had not imposed capital punishment on prisoners.

Attorney General William P. Barr ordered the Bureau of Prisons to schedule executions for five inmates currently on death row. The prisoners were convicted of murdering children.

The last federal execution was in 2003. In the years since, there has been an informal moratorium on executions of federal prisoners, as Justice Department officials reviewed its lethal injection procedures. That practice was underscored during the Obama administration by then-Attorney General Eric Holder’s personal opposition to the death penalty, even while he approved prosecutors’ decisions to seek the death penalty in specific trials.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-department-plans-to-restart-capital-punishment-after-long-hiatus/2019/07/25/f2cc6402-aee5-11e9-bc5c-e73b603e7f38_story.html?utm_term=.49682380972d

[NewJeffCT]

1. Further separating the US from other democracies

hasn't just about every other "first world" democracy banned capital punishment?

[mwooldri]

12. EU countries will not want to extradite US wanted people...

... if the death penalty is on the table, they will not extradite.

[Disaffected]

22. Same with Canada nt

[nycbos]

24. From my understanding it is a clause...

... in many extradition treaties that we have to provide a guarantee that the death penalty won't be applied for an extradition to occur.

[hlthe2b]

2. Everthing this administration does, feeds to their sadism.

[RKP5637]

6. K&R!!! n/t

[rurallib]

15. I am surprised he didn't bring back drawing and quartering

or the Iron Maiden or the rack.

[LuckyCharms]

27. Yet. n/t

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Barr and Trump get off on stuff like this

Having the power of life and death is something they get excited about. And if someone was proven innocent, it would be even more enjoyable for them.

[Hortensis]

4. Let's hope it further separates some doubting conservatives

from those who've embraced extremism. Also a few those on the left who haven't been voting because they've bought the lie that Democrats are just as bad, or just find it a facile excuse for sitting on their fingers while others are voting.

Bit by bit, vote by vote...

[SHRED]

5. Those that can't afford to buy justice will be executed

America is falling.

[underpants]

11. The message is - White Guys back in charge

and some of you are just going to have to be made examples so the others don’t get any ideas about who is in charge

[dlk]

7. More Red Meat for Trump's Truly Awful Base

Republicans are in a race backward toward the Dark Ages. Change is happening and will continue to happen. Republicans can't stop it no matter how draconian their actions. Their fear is palpable

[flor-de-jasmim]

8. Another distraction. I can hardly wait for karma to kick in.

[Saviolo]

33. The problem with the distractions...

The problem with the distractions is that the things they're distracting from are -so bad- that the distractions themselves are terrible problems all on their own. Yeah, they're distracting from slightly worse things, but they're extremely bad all by themselves.

[Bettie]

9. Sure, why not

the Republican party is a death cult anyway.

[Faux pas]

10. Kickin' with disgust

[dalton99a]

13. The sadism is very important.

The sadism is very important. When I first started talking about Trump as a malignant narcissist, people could see the narcissism, the paranoia and the antisocial element. But the fourth component of malignant narcissism is sadism. You see it in everything he does, from the separating of the children at the border to how Trump tortures anyone who doesn't give him what he wants. There's a way in which he takes a kind of manic glee in causing harm and pain and humiliation to other people.

...

Malignant narcissists deteriorate. When they gain power, they become more inflamed in their grandiosity and in their paranoia. They also become more unrestrained in their sadism and in their will to power. Malignant narcissists like Trump are antisocial and have a willingness to do anything to get and keep power. The noted psychologist Erich Fromm actually argued that such personalities then begin to verge on psychosis at that point, becoming so grandiose and paranoid that they really live on the boundary of psychosis and reality.

https://www.salon.com/2018/06/13/psychologist-john-gartner-on-trumps-behavior-its-a-coup-thats-not-moving-slowly-anymore/

[brer cat]

23. It is important and defining for trump and his supporters.

He doesn't just inflict pain and humiliation, he does indeed take "manic glee" in doing so.

[blm]

14. Control the news cycle, create outrage fatigue.

Start too many fires for sane government officials to put out.

Most news media protects these arsonists. As if they admire the level of gall and cruelty of these monsters.

[Me.]

16. Sigh

[Peregrine Took]

17. I'm starting to despise Barr more than The Blob.

Something transparent about Blob's insanity/narcissism which I can understand, while Barr's power grab is unsettling.
Just what does he want? What is he up to?
A very frightening and calculated dude for sure

[MoonRiver]

18. Cruelty is what this administration is all about.

Chump and Barr will probably demand to watch each execution.

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

19. What is the punishment for treason?

Asking for a friend.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

20. Oh goddammit.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

21. Anything to distract from yesterday

Do you think they have a playbook of suggested distractions they just pull out to turn the news cycle away from things they don't like, I do.

The only thing anybody should be talking about is impeachment, the house and senate should cancel the vacations and keep working.

[zackymilly]

25. 61 males and 1 female on Federal death row. n/t

[Butterflylady]

26. Of course

Orange anal and base love executing people. Gets them so excited that, well you know the rest.

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. America died when the Russians invaded us.

We may be able to create a new democracy, but this one is far gone.

And yet we sit, all of us.

fuck

[gratuitous]

29. Would sex trafficking be a death penalty crime?

You know, like if someone had a years-long history of exploiting and raping girls at various sites around the nation and even in other countries?

[Mme. Defarge]

30. It chills me to the bone.

Yes, I went there, worrying about grooming us when it comes to political enemies.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

31. when will the colosseum be built?

[Traildogbob]

34. Not so fast

The death penalty applies to treason. We may not want to end it just yet. Pro life right. Jesus DID actually speak against the death penalty, but parts of the BOOK, God directed how to abort a baby from a rapist. Pick a choose, pick and choose. Religion is like a Buffet bar. Lot's of choices for everyone, and you only have to stuff your face on the stuff ya like.

[lsewpershad]

32. Maybe

he just signed his own death warrant.

[Kaiserguy]

35. Maybe that is what

Karma has been waiting for!