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?
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.
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?
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.