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DOJ, Pence’s team propose quick executions for mass shooters
[NYPOST] The Department of Justice has drafted legislation that would expedite capital punishment for those found guilty of mass killings, according to a top Trump administration official.

Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short told news hounds Monday that the veep’s policy team has been working with Attorney General William Barr on the death penalty
 bill, which will likely be part of a larger gun control package the White House will try to sell to Congress amid a wave of shooting massacres, including the latest rampage in Texas that killed seven people.

Barr in July said the federal government would push to resume executions of convicted murderers on death row after a 16-year hiatus.

While a capital punishment provision might entice Republican senators to get on board, it will likely be a non-starter for House Democrats.

Already, House Democrats are turning up their noses at a bipartisan background check bill, a piece of Senate legislation being pushed by Sens. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). House Democrats say it doesn’t go far enough.

On the flip side, Senate Republicans seem unwilling to pick up a background check bill passed earlier this year in the Democrat-led House.

The president has shown various levels of support for strengthening gun control laws since the double mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas. Saturday’s drive-by rampage in Odessa and Midland, Texas, brought the issue to the political forefront yet again.


Posted by: Fred 2019-09-03
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