Subj : Authoritarianism
To   : Jeff Thiele
From : Lee Lofaso
Date : Wed Nov 09 2022 09:39:22

Hello Jeff,

 JT> On Monday night, a potential presidential candidate said that s/he would
 JT> have
 JT> drug dealers executed within "two hours or less." The executions would be by
 JT> firing squad and the bullets that killed the suspected drug dealers would be
 JT> sent to their families.

Federal executions are carried out by lethal injection.

 JT> This is highly reminiscent of the extrajudicial killings of thousands of
 JT> people in the Phillipines, ordered by ex-President Rodrigo Duterte under the
 JT> cover of a "war on drugs."

There is no death penalty in the Philippines.

 JT> Is this where we are as a country now, with summary executions lacking any
 JT> due process for crimes that don't even carry the death penalty?

The Congress has authority to sentence an individual convicted of
treason to death - including death by firing squad.

 JT> Would you vote for someone who proposed this?

President Ferdinand Marcos did away with that practice.
So did the other President Ferdinand Marcos, decades before.

For Life,
Lee

-- 
Impossible is nothing

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