It is a long-held and cherished belief among reactionaries that the only reason the death penalty doesn't deter crime is because we no longer have public executions. Of course, back in the early 19th century, the US murder rate was twice what it is now, so ...
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Firing squad for Nidal Hasan, former army psychiatrist who killed 13 at Ft Hood, to be livestreamed Dec. 3. I believe would be first public broadcast of a US execution. 2 decades ago, I wrote science fiction about such: "The First Death of 2057" douglaslucas.com/fiction/fd2057 Reality coming faster
NEW: The Trump administration wants to livestream a firing squad execution for this holiday season. Pete Hegseth wants the public to see the Dec. 3 scheduled killing of Nidal Hasan. Tonight, at Law Dork:
I would argue that the fact that there aren’t daily terrorist attacks is pretty good evidence people not only understand there are serious consequences “for these types of things” but also that most people are pretty good most of the time.
I really apologize to all the YA dystopian authors for me thinking they were over the top with their cardboard fascist villains. Turns out, very realistic.
Since we’re live streaming executions now, it seems worth noting 18 USC 2280 provides for the death penalty if you kill someone while blowing up a boat.
The life of someone you know could be dependent on the ratings Hegseth gets for his sick government snuff film. If it draws crowds, they will do it again. And again. No matter how it does, Trump will stand out there and brag about the ratings for live murder. “Four times bigger than the Superbowl!”
George Carlin once joked about societal depravity reaching the point where America would televise executions. The Trump regime has actually gotten us here.
Pete Hegseth wants the public to see the Dec. 3 scheduled killing of Nidal Hasan. Also: A Navy board made clear in a recent action that it disagrees with the trans military ban. open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...
Public executions? ... This is all about reducing the threshold for barbarism so it'll be less shocking when they do it on the streets. #MAGAmerica
We're a hop, skip and a jump away from the dystopian hellscape envisioned by movies like The Running Man and Hunger Games.
Keep this in your back pocket for the next time a conservative says we need to regulate the internet so kids aren’t exposed to “immoral content”
Will they also be livestreaming Dylann Roof's execution with Hegseth and Kash P. doing celebratory keg stands in the background?
This administration really is using The Handmaid's Tale as a guidebook, isn't it?
It is ghoulish to livestream a public execution by firing squad open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...
The United States of America should be on fire. What the hell is wrong with the American people? This is no longer a case of "this is how it starts"... very real fascism is deeply rooted in now. You can't vote yourselves out of this anymore. Act now or perish, one way or another.
Next up in the USA: gladiatorial fights to the death in front of the Whitehouse, and throwing religious groups they don't like to caged lions.
I will never forgive my Old School Republican friends for enabling this. For what? Fucking tax cuts? Fuck all y’all.
Who wants to tell this dumbass drunkard that public executions are not legal under the UCMJ, federal law, and the laws of all 50 states.
The Trump administration wants to livestream a firing squad execution for this holiday season open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...
…..Hegseth & the trump administration have reduced the justice system into a 2026 gladiatorial bloodsport. This is not justice. This is depravity.
The lurid pictures of live Executions, in Muslim countries is something that the MAGA crowd is fed, as being archaic and barbaric. Is America REALLY this catastrophically out of touch?
The Australian Government has shared values with the #USA #auspol #aukus
Don't know why they're so gung-ho about this when they spent like a year trying to doxx and blacklist everyone who watched Charlie Kirk's.
Masked federal thugs on our streets killing and terrorizing immigrants & citizens. And now live-streaming public executions. Trump’s America. A dark, ugly, fearful, cruel place. Please American voters, in November, tell the world this is not who we are.👇
My stepdad and I were diametrically opposed on capital punishment but we both agreed that it should *never* be a circus.
This guys needs to be criminally prosecuted for the hundreds of murders at sea. Full stop.
Hegseth’s own mother knew what kind of man he was.
Fascism. The regime starts public executions, just to show they can. A little extra threat to all those inclined to resist.
what, and I cannot emphasize this enough, thE FUCK
Hegseth's bloodlust. Sick. Barbaric. He wants to take our nation back to the days of public executions, i.e. government lynchings.
Hegseth's depraved plan to livestream an execution by firesquad is a line that once crossed will result in an avalanche of state sponsored murder. It will whet Hegseth and Trump's lust for blood. Soon, they will be executing their critics, brown people, non-christians, etc.
Can someone near him please take away the T Injections, for the sake of our country?
Everytime you think USA cannot fall lower, they always find a way!
When ISIS were live-streaming the executions of their victims, at least we still had enough decency to turn our eyes away. This is like some twisted voyeurism. #r4today #NidalHasan #PeteHegseth
Every single soldier who participates in this needs to be court martialed
Hegseth has a sexual fetish with murder. He must have a private video collection, and he will watch also this one, pants down.
We are now at the blood lust phase of fascism. Hopefully they will also livestream Trump and Hegseth‘s execution for treason and a failed coup d’état attempt at some point in the future.
🎶 Have a jolly Republican Christmas
The USA Government wants to murder you, and they want you to cheer for it
Jesus fucking Christ @albomp.bsky.social, what the fuck are we doing aligning ourselves with these sick fucking psychos?!?! What the fuck are you thinking?!?!??? #auspol
I'm sure publicly shooting a man in a wheelchair will make for some great optics.
Hegseth thinks everyone in this country has a bloodlust like he does.
