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    Pfft he is not going to do that at all last time I checked Obama is pro death penalty. The only reason he hasn't executed people is because he is focusing on more important things.

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    Senator: Death penalty for cop-killing ambushes

    Criminals who ambush and kill police officers could face the death penalty if an Alaska Republican gets his way.

    "And that includes the states like mine that, at the state level, don't have the death penalty," Sen. Dan Sullivan told the Washington Examiner.

    Sullivan proposed the idea as part of a suite of enhanced penalties for attacks on first responders and members of the judiciary. He believes the legislation will have at least symbolic significance, and perhaps deter attacks on police following an uptick in police fatalities over the past year.

    "It sends a signal to law enforcement, whether in Alaska or nationally, 'hey, we got your back,' " Sullivan said.

    The former state attorney general introduced the Protect Our Heroes Act in December, after two officers in his home state were shot in the waning months of 2016. One of the officers survived; the other, who had predicted to his family that he would be shot that evening before leaving for his shift, died of complications from surgery days after the shooting.

    "It's an issue that's on the front minds of Alaskans, my constituents, but ... nationwide, this is happening," Sullivan said. "Whether it's Texas or New York or Massachusetts or Iowa or Georgia or Missouri, the list is really long in terms of officers — many of whom have been ambushed, right, or targeted — who have been killed and wounded."

    Sixty-four police officers nationwide were shot and killed in 2016, according to a year-end report from the National Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial Fund. That's an increase from the 41 fatal shootings in 2015. Texas, which lost five officers in a single attack at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, led the nation with 17 slain police officers. Twenty of the fatal shootings nationwide were ambush attacks, according to the report.

    Sullivan's bill could gain momentum from President Trump's victory, which placed Republicans in control of Congress and the White House. Trump discussed police fatalities throughout the campaign, portraying the spike in violence as a consequence of President Obama's policies. "We're going to restore law, order and justice in America," Trump said in November.

    At other times, Trump accused Black Lives Matter, which protests the shootings of black men by police officers, of inciting the attacks. "They certainly have ignited people and you see that. ... It's a very, very serious situation and we just can't let it happen," Trump said on Fox News in July.

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/se...rticle/2612085
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    House moves bill making it easier to seek death penalty for cop killers

    The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday passed legislation that would make it easier to impose the death penalty against anyone who kills a law enforcement officer or first responder.

    The Thin Blue Line Act, sponsored by Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., would make the victim's job as a police officer, firefighter or other first responder an "aggravating" factor that would factor into death penalty decisions.

    There have been 39 law enforcement deaths in 2017 so far, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page.

    "Congress should do all it can to protect our police officers and first responders," Buchanan said ahead of Thursday's vote. "My bill makes sure that anyone who targets law enforcement officers is held accountable."

    The committee passed the resolution 19-12, in the face of opposition from Democrats, the ACLU and NAACP's Legal Defense Fund. It now goes to the House floor for a vote.

    According to Monique Dixon of the Legal Defense Fund, the legislation "needlessly duplicates federal and state laws that already impose serious penalties on persons convicted of crimes against law enforcement. At a time when public support for the death penalty is at its lowest point in decades, Congress should reject this unnecessary bill and focus on substantive policing reform."

    However, a number of national law enforcement organizations support the legislation, including the National Association of Police Officers, National Fraternal Order of Police, Major Counties Sheriffs of America and the American Federation of Government Employees.

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ho...rticle/2621462
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    Time drags on at Death Row, USP Terre Haute

    Dylann Roof latest inmate, but feds haven't executed anyone since 2004

    By Lisa Trigg
    The Tribune-Star

    Dylann Roof – the newest and youngest inmate housed on federal Death Row – now waits with 51 others sentenced to die by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute.

    Roof – the 23-year-old gunman convicted of killing nine members of a Bible study group at a South Carolina church in 2015 – was moved to the maximum security federal prison on April 21.

    In a month when the state of Arkansas has executed four condemned inmates on an accelerated schedule because the state’s lethal-injection drugs were about to expire, the wait on federal Death Row shows no signs of ending soon.

    It’s been about 14 years since the last federal execution was carried out. A federal moratorium has put the lethal injection process in limbo since 2004, pending a Justice Department review after a series of botched state executions blamed on faulty drugs.

    Roof is the first person sentenced to death under the federal Shepard/Byrd Hate Crimes Act. He was convicted in December of killing nine people and wounding three others when he went to a midweek Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17, 2015, and opened fire with a .45-caliber handgun.

    A white supremacist, Roof told investigators he was hoping to start a race war in America. He has also pleaded guilty to nine counts of murder in a South Carolina court and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. The state conviction essentially serves as a back-up in case the federal trial verdict is overturned.

    Federal inmates with death sentences are usually housed in a “Special Confinement Unit” established at the Terre Haute penitentiary by the Bureau of Prisons in the 1990s.

    Not all at Terre Haute

    Three inmates have been executed at USP Terre Haute since then — Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in 2001, drug kingpin Juan Raul Garza in 2001 and murderer/rapist Louis Jones Jr. in 2003. The moratorium went into effect the next year.

    In addition to the 52 inmates housed on death row in Terre Haute, five other people with death sentences are being housed at other federal facilities. They will ultimately be transferred to the Terre Haute USP if their execution is to be carried out.

    Three of those inmates are housed at the federal Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX), the federal prison system’s super-maximum-security penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.

    Among those at ADX are Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was 21 when he was convicted of 30 counts related to the bombing plot instigated by his older brother, Tamerlan.

    Seventeen of those 30 counts carried a possible death sentence. The younger Tsarnaev was found guilty of conspiring and detonating weapons of mass destruction at a public event as an act of terrorism resulting in death. Tsarnaev will turn 24 in July.

    Tamerlan Tsarnaev died April 19, 2013, from wounds suffered during a chase and shootout with police.

    Also at Florence is Kaboni Savage, 42, and Joseph Ebron, 38.

    Savage was sentenced to death in 2013 for orchestrating 12 murders in relation to drug crimes. Ebron was sentenced in 2009 for murdering a fellow inmate at a federal prison in Texas.

    Lisa M. Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, is housed at Carswell federal medical center in northern Texas. She was sentenced in 2007 for the kidnapping and murder of a pregnant woman, whose unborn baby she then took and claimed as her own.

    Condemned inmate Robert Bolden, 53, is being held at Springfield, Mo., federal medical center. He was sentenced in 2004 for killing a bank security guard during an attempted robbery in St. Louis.

    The moratorium

    The halt on federal executions and ongoing Justice Department review of lethal injection protocols came after a number of botched state executions in which some lethal drug combinations failed to anesthetize inmates, causing inmates to scream and writhe in pain for a prolonged period.

    “The Justice Department is continuing its review of the federal protocol used by the Bureau of Prisons as well as policy issues related to the death penalty, and we have, in effect, a moratorium in place on federal executions in the meantime,” Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr has said.

    All states and the federal government use lethal injection as their primary method of execution. States use a variety of protocols using one, two, or three drugs. The three-drug protocol uses an anesthetic or sedative, typically followed by pancuronium bromide to paralyze the inmate and potassium chloride to stop the inmate’s heart. The one or two-drug protocols typically use a lethal dose of an anesthetic or sedative.

    A bleak existence


    Sister Rita Clare Gerardot of the Sisters of Providence at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods was a silent protester at the McVeigh and Garza executions. She has also been a spiritual adviser for former death row inmate David Paul Hammer, who was resentenced in July 2014 to life without parole after spending about 15 years on death row.

    Gerardot has told the Tribune-Star that facing execution is a bleak existence at the prison.

    While she herself has never been inside the special confinement unit, she said she has heard descriptions of it from Hammer and others who have experienced it first-hand.

    “They are in a small cell by themselves. All their meals are pushed through a slot. There is no recreation, but they can go out of their cells three times a week into cages,” she said.

    The cells contain a bed, toilet, shower and a chair connected to a desk, she said. And there is a small color television in each cell — color only because black-and-white TVs are no longer available.

    The inmates can speak to other nearby inmates at the fronts of their cells, she said, and they have a limited amount of time when they can use a telephone and access email, and have access to a library. If a friend or relative sends money for commissary, the inmates can order additional food or clothing beyond what is provided by the prison.

    “Truthfully, I don’t know how they keep their sanity,” Gerardot said.

    Gerardot started visiting Hammer at the request of a Sister of Mercy from New York, who would not regularly make trips to the penitentiary in Terre Haute. Gerardot said went as a “minister of record” for Hammer, so she would not count as one of the limited visitation times that he received each month. She spoke to him through a window, using a two-way telephone, the same as family members and other visitors. He was led to the meetings in shackles, she said, and returned to his cell wearing shackles.

    Hammer is now housed at a federal prison in Missouri since his re-sentencing.

    Other notable inmates

    The penitentiary at Terre Haute also houses other notable inmates who are not on death row.

    The correctional complex, which also includes a medium security federal correctional institution and a satellite minimum-security camp, has a history of housing some “celebrity” inmates convicted of non-violent crimes.

    Currently, John Walker Lindh, often called “the American Taliban,” is serving a sentence until May 2019.

    Abdulwali Abdukhad Muse of Somalia has a release date of October 2038. He was sentenced to 33-plus years in prison after pleading guilty to hijacking, kidnapping and hostage-taking connected to the April 2009 piracy of the container ship MV Maersk Alabama, which was dramatized the movie “Captain Phillips.”

    Former celebrities who have been housed at the prison complex include troubled NFL quarterback Art Schlichter, former Illinois governor George Ryan and former Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale, who died in custody in 2011 while serving a life sentence.

    Others former high-profile inmates include singer Ronald Isley, who was convicted of tax evasion; Chuck Berry, who was sentenced for his alleged amorous involvement with an underage waitress in the 1960s; Chicago power broker William “The Pope” Cellini, who was released in 2013; baseball pitcher Dennis Dale “Denny” McLain, the last MLB pitcher to win 30 games in one season; and Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

    The U.S. Penitentiary at Terre Haute is high security with a population of about 1,409 total inmates, including 52 on death row.

    The medium security federal correctional institution has a population of 1,010 while the satellite camp has another 328 inmates.

    The entire population of the complex is about 2,747 inmates.

    http://www.tribstar.com/news/local_n...d940c96c6.html
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    Time to start. Who signs the death warrants for Federal executions?
    Proverbs 21:15 "When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evil doers."

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    The President of the US just like governors for the states. Trump will definitely sign such warrants.

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    No. The federal district court judge where the trial took place sets the death warrant. Clemency is solely up to the president.

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    House votes to expand death penalty for police killings

    By Christina Marcos
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    The House passed legislation on Thursday that would make the murder of a law enforcement officer punishable by death.

    Approved by a 271-143 vote, the measure expands the aggravating factors when a jury considers a death sentence in federal cases.

    Forty-eight Democrats voted with all but four Republicans in favor of the legislation, which was timed for a vote during National Police Week.

    Federal law outlines 16 factors juries must consider when debating whether the death penalty is justified, such as whether the victim was a “high public official” or the accused committed the crime in a particularly cruel way.
    Killing a federal law enforcement officer is already considered a factor for the death penalty under current law. The bill approved by the House would extend that to state and local police officers and first responders.

    All 50 states also have laws increasing penalties for crimes against law enforcement.

    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) acknowledged the proposed change would likely have limited applicability given that most homicide cases are considered by state courts and that it may be rare for a law enforcement killing to be involved in a federal offense.

    But bill’s proponents primarily wanted to send a deterrence message.

    “Getting this bill signed into law will protect those who serve our communities and send a clear message: targeting or killing our first responders will not be tolerated,” said Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), the bill’s author.

    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) came out against the bill, arguing in a letter to House Judiciary Committee leaders that “expanding the number of aggravating factors that would subject a person to the death penalty is unnecessary and duplicative; counterproductive to improving law enforcement and community relations; and unlikely to prevent future violence against police.”

    Civil rights groups said the bill falls in line with President Trump’s desire to get tough on crime and enforce “law and order,” but would ultimately be counterproductive.

    Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed federal prosecutors last week to charge and pursue the “most serious, readily provable offense” in criminal cases. The move prompted outcry from Democrats and libertarians such as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who warned it would unnecessarily increase the prison population.

    An Obama-era order in 2013 under then-Attorney General Eric Holder instructed prosecutors to avoid mandatory minimums in some drug-related cases.

    Todd Cox, the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund policy director, wrote in a Medium post this week that Congress should instead consider proposals that require police departments to provide anti-bias and de-escalation training.

    “Unfortunately, Congress has chosen to spend this week considering unnecessary and redundant legislation that will only widen the gap between communities and law enforcement, without any added security benefit,” Cox wrote.

    Democrats, who largely already oppose the death penalty, said it unnecessarily expanded the statute, particularly for if a defendant only attempted to kill a law enforcement officer.

    “I’m not aware that we have in the law anywhere a death penalty for an attempted crime,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee. “The attempted terrible act certainly should be punished. But not as severely as the accomplishment of the terrible act.”

    The House is expected to consider another police-themed bill on Friday that would allow probation officers to arrest people without warrants if they forcibly assault or obstruct them during their official duties.

    http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-actio...olice-killings
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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

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    Jul. 07, 2017 - 2:26 - Republicans are pushing for the Senate to pass the ‘Thin Blue Line Act,’ a measure which would allow federal judges and juries to consider the death penalty for people who kill or target law enforcement officers

    http://video.foxnews.com/v/549648159...#sp=show-clips

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    Need to impose the death penalty on all the coward cops who murder unarmed innocent people like those two coward cops who murdered that 6 year old autistic boy in Louisiana. Plenty of pity for cop killers.

    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...ar-old-n741216

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