Praising the extrajudicial murder of a person who had not yet even been charged with a crime as governmental “retribution.” Perhaps the most dangerous words this vile tyrant has yet said.
Crime. No crime. Charged. Uncharged. Citizen. Or non-citizen. On US soil. Or not. By drone or by cops. Government shouldn’t be killing civilians even after conviction. But government killing of civilians w/o any process is authoritarian, illegal, & contrary to international law.
The US Torture Victim Protection Act contains a definition of extrajudicial killing: “Deliberated killing not authorized by a previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples.”
Don’t want death squads? Vote. And also: Help formerly incarcerated people vote in Florida, who now can’t bc the GOP erected an illegal poll tax keeping them from doing so. Passed a law requiring payment of unaffordable fines/fees. I donated to help pay. wegotthevote.org/finesandfees/
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