• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    10 days ago

    If we were following the law to the letter, well…

    Aren’t traitors to the United States meant to be executed?

    For the record this is not a call to violence, I am not suggesting, command, inferring, or anyway implying that someone should harm anyone, but doesn’t the law literally say that insurrectionists are to be hanged?

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      Treason carries a potential death sentence, or not less than 5 years imprisonment. Treason is also very narrowly defined by the Constitution, and what Trump did probably wouldn’t satisfy the strict legal definition. He is guilty of seditious conspiracy and/or insurrection, which are not punishable by death.