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-- 2015 --
December 18: Donald Trump's Racially Charged Advocacy of the Death Penalty
The Republican frontrunner has long called for more executions—even when his proposals run afoul of the Constitution.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/donald-trump-death-penalty/420069/
-- 2016 --
August 23: No Time For Trump: Killing Off The Death Penalty
Trump is a longtime death penalty enthusiast who has committed to expanding its reach. This despite all the evidence that its application is unconscionable — entrapping the innocent, and disproportionately ensnaring the poor and the miserable, while bypassing those whose guilt is often greater.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-north-patterson/no-time-for-trump--killin_b_9729014.html
November 16: ... in 1989, Trump paid for a full-page ad calling for the reinstatement of New York’s death penalty to be used on five young black men after a grisly and violent rape in Central Park. Even after the five men were exonerated and another man confessed to the crime, Trump expressed skepticism that the men were actually innocent, as recently as this fall. More broadly, Trump continued to advocate for the death penalty in the time since 1989.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrismcdaniel/how-donald-trump-could-revitalize-the-death-penalty?utm_term=.tc12KR9V6#.qn65qgKnA
-- 2017 --
January 24: Donald Trump has a strong stance on capital punishment
On many issues, President Donald Trump’s opinions are murky at best. He’s offered a number of different positions on issues like abortion rights, foreign policy and even his favorite issue, immigration. There’s one issue, though, where Trump has remained unambiguous throughout his campaign, even dating back to his days as a real estate mogul: capital punishment.
https://mic.com/articles/166436/donald-trump-has-a-strong-stance-on-capital-punishment#.ZJ5HxCS2A
March 29: Trump's support for the death penalty puts him on wrong side of history
Our president is the same man who once paid $85,000 for full-page ads in the top four New York Daily newspapers to loudly express his wish: "Bring Back the Death Penalty!'
He is perhaps the loudest proponent of capital punishment to ever take office. Yet, ironically, in the year he got elected, the total number of executions in this country only amounted to twenty -- a 25-year low.
Will executions ramp up again over the next four years? With a death penalty advocate as the leader of our land, what is happening with capital punishment in America
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/crime/326388-trumps-support-for-the-death-penalty-puts-him-on-wrong-side-of-history
April 27: The Federal Death Penalty Under Trump
President Trump and Attorney General Sessions hold exceptionally pro-death penalty views. Here's how they might seek to increase use of capital punishment at the federal level, and why any such effort likely would fail.
https://takecareblog.com/blog/the-federal-death-penalty-under-trump
May 9: Trump-O-Meter ... Impose death penalty for cop killers
“One of the first things I’d do in terms of executive order, if I win, will be to sign a strong, strong statement that would go out to the country, out to the world, that anybody killing a police man, a police woman, a police officer, anybody killing a police officer, the death penalty is going to happen,”
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1344/impose-death-penalty-cop-killers/
November 1: A day after an immigrant from Uzbekistan was arrested on suspicion of plowing a pickup truck along a crowded bicycle path in Manhattan, killing eight people, Mr. Trump denounced the American criminal justice system as “a joke” and “a laughingstock,” adding that he was open to sending “this animal” instead to the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Shortly before midnight, the president took it a step further, posting a message on Twitter declaring that the suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, should be executed. “NYC terrorist was happy as he asked to hang ISIS flag in his hospital room,” he wrote, referring to the driver’s reported interest in the Islamic State extremist group. “He killed 8 people, badly injured 12. SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!”
Presidents are typically advised never to weigh in on pending criminal cases because such comments can be used by defense lawyers to argue that their clients cannot get a fair trial
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/trump-new-york-attack-schumer-visa.html
November 2: Trump backs down from call to send New York terrorism suspect to Guantanamo. Instead, 'DEATH PENALTY!'
http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-trump-backs-down-from-call-to-send-new-1509625553-htmlstory.html
November 2: Trump's 'alarming' death penalty call threatens suspect's chance of fair trial, experts warn
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/02/new-york-attack-suspect-death-penalty-trump
November 3: Trump's complicated past with the death penalty and due process
For the last half decade of public life and beyond, Trump has consistently called for capital punishment against some of America's most high-profile criminals. But he's done so with limited concern for due process -- in both the justice system and the method of execution itself -- which courts have shaped and ethicists have debated in the US for decades.
Trump has called for the death penalty more than a dozen times in the last five years
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/03/politics/death-penalty-trump/index.html
-- 2018 --
January 9: Trump's DOJ ramps up use of death penalty, starting with Detroit man
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2018/01/09/trumps-doj-ramps-up-use-of-death-penalty-starting-with-detroit-man
February 25: Trump 'jokes' about introducing the death penalty for drug offenses
President Trump talks privately about instituting the death penalty for drug offenses like Singapore as a way to drive down consumption of illicit substances, according to a report.
"He says that a lot," a source told Axios in an interview published Sunday. "He says, 'When I ask the prime minister of Singapore do they have a drug problem [the prime minister replies,] 'No. Death penalty'."
Another senior aide told the news outlet Trump "often jokes about killing drug dealers."
"He’ll say, 'You know the Chinese and Filipinos don’t have a drug problem. They just kill them,'" the official said.
However, Trump reportedly understands such a policy would probably not be politically feasible
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-jokes-about-introducing-the-death-penalty-for-drug-offenses-report/article/2650009
February 26: Trump thinks killing dealers may solve nation's drug problem
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-thinks-kill-dealers-solve-nation-drug-problem-article-1.3841957
February 28: Trump Goes Full Duterte, Suggests “Death Penalty” for Drug Dealers
Five sources say he is deadly serious about the issue.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/trump-suggests-death-penalty-for-drug-dealers
March 1: Trump praises countries with death penalty for drug dealers at opioids summit
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-praises-countries-execute-drug-dealers-opioids-summit-n852376
March 2: Beltway freaks out as Trump proposes death penalty for drug dealers
President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested using the death penalty on drug dealers to address the opioid epidemic, equating providing lethal drugs with murder.
“We have pushers and drugs dealers, they are killing hundreds and hundreds of people,” Trump said at a White House summit on opioid abuse. “If you shoot one person, they give you life, they give you the death penalty. These people can kill 2,000, 3,000 people and nothing happens to them.”
Trump said countries that impose the death penalty on drug dealers have a better record than the United States in combating substance abuse.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/beltway-freaks-out-as-trump-proposes-death-penalty-for-drug-dealers
January 23: Donald Trump makes a comment about his current momentum at a campaign stop in Sioux City, Iowa on Saturday.
"You know what else they say about my people? The polls, they say I have the most loyal people. Did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay? It’s like incredible," Trump said
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/01/23/trump_i_could_stand_in_the_middle_of_fifth_avenue_and_shoot_somebody_and_i_wouldnt_lose_any_voters.html
March 9: Philippine President Duterte Mimics Trump's Racism and Sexism in Defensive Insults at the U.N. ... Duterte attacked human rights officials this week.
When it comes to disturbing rhetoric, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is no stranger to the practice of stunning his viewers with a diverse range of obscenities. Be it misogynist invectives, promising cash prizes for killing rebels or boasting about committing murder, Duterte is notorious for openly uncouth proclamations. Keeping his record of indelicacy alive, Duterte recently attacked human rights officials, including reportedly mocking the race of a black prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.
On Wednesday, Duterte made flippant remarks about international human rights agencies seeking to investigate the rising death toll that has reportedly occurred in his drug war. "Human rights, human rights, son of a bitch, human rights," Duterte said in front of a crowd. According to Human Rights Watch, at least 12,000 people have been killed in the Philippine president's brutal drug war since June 2016. The official government under Duterte denies this.
Unsettling as his comments may be, Duterte enjoys unwavering support and praise from the leader of the world's most powerful country, Donald Trump.
https://www.alternet.org/philippine-president-rodrigo-duterte-hurls-racist-sexist-insults-un
March 10: Trump administration 'examines death penalty for drug dealers' as part of a crackdown on opioids
Officials from Singapore have briefed White House staff on its anti-drug policy which includes the execution of traffickers
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-administration-death-penalty-drug-dealers-execution-policy-review-a8249221.html
March 19: Trump's death penalty plan for drug dealers a 'step backwards,' experts say
President Donald Trump on Monday rolled out his three-part plan to tackle the opioid epidemic -- including some programs long championed by public health advocates -- but it's the proposal to impose the death penalty on drug traffickers that has raised the most eyebrows.
"This isn't about being nice anymore," Trump told the crowd at a New Hampshire event. "These are terrible people, and we have to get tough on those people. We can have all the blue-ribbon committees we want. But if we don't get tough on the drug dealers, we're wasting our time -- just remember that, we're wasting our time -- and that toughness includes the death penalty."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/19/health/trump-death-penalty-drug-traffickers-reaction/index.html
October 11: Washington State’s Supreme Court Declares Death Penalty Unconstitutional
The court ruled the punishment is applied “in an arbitrary and racially biased manner.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/washington-death-penalty-unconstitutional_us_5bbf6d7be4b0bd9ed557cb8b
Undated 2018: Public Health Experts Criticize Trump’s Proposal to Seek Death Penalty for Drug Traffickers
Saying “the ultimate penalty has to be the death penalty,” President Donald Trump (pictured) announced on March 19 that he will direct the Department of Justice to seek the death penalty against drug traffickers. The proposal, included as part of the administration’s plan to address an opioid epidemic that has resulted in as many as 64,000 overdose deaths in 2016 alone, drew immediate criticism from public-health and criminal-justice experts. “We can’t execute our way out of this epidemic,” said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, co-director of the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative at Brandeis University. “To be talking about the death penalty sounds to me like a step backwards.” During the announcement, Trump acknowledged resistance to his death-penalty proposal, saying, “[m]aybe our country's not ready for that. It's possible, it’s possible that our country is not ready for that.” Since 1994, federal law has authorized the death penalty for “drug kingpins” who traffic in large quantities of drugs, even if no killing has occurred. But the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional for crimes against individuals in which no one is killed, and no prior administration—Republican or Democratic—has used the drug kingpin provision to seek the death penalty.
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/7046
-- 2019 --
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