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Trump is reportedly asking advisors if he should go through with Hegseth’s plan to livestream a military execution later this year. The president “didn’t sound particularly enthusiastic” about a live, national showing of the execution, a source close to Trump said.

buff.lyReport: Trump Is Having Second Thoughts About Livestreaming Military ExecutionTrump isn’t “particularly enthusiastic” about Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream a military execution in December.

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“It takes away everything America stands for when we do public executions,” one Army officer said in an anonymous comment to CNN. “The generational harm caused by allowing troops in uniform to stand in front of a man in a wheelchair and watch him get shot to death is irreparable.”

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Trump’s public statements about the death penalty reveal that he has errant views about capital punishment. Multiple studies have shown that there is no evidence supporting the idea that the death penalty can act as a deterrent, or that the threat of capital punishment somehow lessens violent crime.

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In an op-ed published last week, Maya Schenwar decried the death penalty in all of its forms, describing the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee as an act of torture and Hegseth’s decision to livestream Hasan’s execution as part of a larger “pro-death penalty fervor.”

buff.lyWe Must Move Beyond the Era of State-Sponsored, State-Celebrated MurderLet’s build a world in which the torture of Christa Pike — or anyone — is unthinkable.

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Because he’s losing the capacity to think for himself. His brain cells are senescing and sloughing off with each passing day.

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The great American progressive George Carlin teased that executions should be aired at halftime on Monday Night Football. He understood Republican thinking: cruelty is spectacle.