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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(138,066 posts)
Sat Jun 6, 2026, 08:06 PM 13 hrs ago

Army lays groundwork for death row executions if Trump gives

The Army is preparing to carry out the executions of the military's four death-row inmates if ordered to do so by the president, according to an internal planning document reviewed by ABC News. If carried out, it would mark the first time the military executed convicted American inmates in more than a half-century

The plan, dubbed "Operation Resolute Justice" and issued internally in February, directs Army officials to coordinate with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer condemned prisoners from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to the federal execution facility in Terre Haute, Indiana, where the Justice Department carried out a series of non-military federal executions during President Donald Trump's first term.

The military has not executed a service member since 1961, when Pvt. John Bennett was put to death after being convicted of the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl in Austria.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in September he would be seeking the execution of Nidal Hassan, who was sentenced to death for the Fort Hood mass shooting in 2009 which left 13 dead and 32 injured, according to The Hill.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/army-lays-groundwork-death-row-152531445.html

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Army lays groundwork for death row executions if Trump gives (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 13 hrs ago OP
Now a days this administration would give him woodsprite 13 hrs ago #1
Army rso 13 hrs ago #2
"Resolute Justice" GenThePerservering 10 hrs ago #3
No, just facetiously twisted names B.See 10 hrs ago #6
So....about those little girls who were killed in IRAN purr-rat beauty 10 hrs ago #4
over 200 fishermen murdered too Skittles 10 hrs ago #5

rso

(2,685 posts)
2. Army
Sat Jun 6, 2026, 08:17 PM
13 hrs ago

I wonder if the hit movie “Town without pity” with Kirk Douglas was loosely based on the rape in Austria.

B.See

(8,958 posts)
6. No, just facetiously twisted names
Sat Jun 6, 2026, 11:08 PM
10 hrs ago

for that which does exactly the OPPOSITE. And they're good at it:

Mom's for 'liberty'
'Freedom' caucus
'Save' America act
'Truth' social
Board of 'peace.'

Though I'd suspect it's actually bored of peace.

purr-rat beauty

(1,531 posts)
4. So....about those little girls who were killed in IRAN
Sat Jun 6, 2026, 10:46 PM
10 hrs ago

who is lining up for executions for that WAR CRIME?

Skittles

(173,345 posts)
5. over 200 fishermen murdered too
Sat Jun 6, 2026, 10:49 PM
10 hrs ago

courtesy of Cadet Bonespurs, member of the "pro-life Christian" party

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