Justin Amash teams up with 'squad' member to end federal death penalty ahead of announced executions - Conservative Review - Nate Madden, BlazeTV:
July 26, 2019 - "Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich., who left the Republican Party over his feud with President Donald Trump, has teamed up with a member of the anti-Trump 'squad' to keep the Department of Justice from executing five convicted murderers.
“'Michigan abolished capital punishment in 1846,' Amash tweeted Friday morning. 'The U.S. government has had a moratorium on this horrendous practice since 2003. Now, President Trump and AG Barr want to resume executions. This week, I joined @RepPressley to introduce a bill to prohibit the federal death penalty.'
"The short bill, less than two pages, simply states that 'no person may be sentenced to death or put to death on or after the date of enactment of this Act for any violation of federal law.'
"The move is in response to a Department of Justice announcement Thursday that the Trump administration would seek to carry out the first federal executions in 16 years....
"Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is a member of the far-left group of House Democrat freshmen known as the 'squad.' She responded to Thursday’s news by bringing up President Trump’s calls, when he was a private citizen, to bring back the death penalty for the Central Park Five....
"The death row inmates in this situation, according to Thursday’s announcement, have been convicted of murdering 'the most vulnerable in our society — children and the elderly'....
"The last person to be executed by the federal government, as opposed to a state government, was in 2003. While Obama stopped short on efforts to put an end to the practice at the federal level in 2015, his administration put a de facto moratorium on executions."
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July 26, 2019 - "Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich., who left the Republican Party over his feud with President Donald Trump, has teamed up with a member of the anti-Trump 'squad' to keep the Department of Justice from executing five convicted murderers.
“'Michigan abolished capital punishment in 1846,' Amash tweeted Friday morning. 'The U.S. government has had a moratorium on this horrendous practice since 2003. Now, President Trump and AG Barr want to resume executions. This week, I joined @RepPressley to introduce a bill to prohibit the federal death penalty.'
"The short bill, less than two pages, simply states that 'no person may be sentenced to death or put to death on or after the date of enactment of this Act for any violation of federal law.'
"The move is in response to a Department of Justice announcement Thursday that the Trump administration would seek to carry out the first federal executions in 16 years....
"Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is a member of the far-left group of House Democrat freshmen known as the 'squad.' She responded to Thursday’s news by bringing up President Trump’s calls, when he was a private citizen, to bring back the death penalty for the Central Park Five....
"The death row inmates in this situation, according to Thursday’s announcement, have been convicted of murdering 'the most vulnerable in our society — children and the elderly'....
"The last person to be executed by the federal government, as opposed to a state government, was in 2003. While Obama stopped short on efforts to put an end to the practice at the federal level in 2015, his administration put a de facto moratorium on executions."
Read more: https://www.conservativereview.com/news/justin-amash-teams-squad-member-end-federal-death-penalty-ahead-announced-executions/
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