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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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