# Death penalty opponents and supporters: do you think Trump deserves to be executed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 10, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-opponents-and-supporters-do-you-think-trump-deserves-to-be-executed/930209 "2021-01-10T22:14:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Turki-lurki](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turki-lurki/32/7168_2.png) [@Turki-lurki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turki-lurki)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-opponents-and-supporters-do-you-think-trump-deserves-to-be-executed/930209/61 "2021-01-20T07:06:22Z")
Thinking of the separated families, kids in cages, brutalization of refuges and the abandonment of Kurds on the battlefield. I could pull the trap door lever without a second thought. I generally oppose the death penalty and get that it would not stop the Alt-right. But it would damn well stop tRump. Maybe put some fear into copycats, too. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-opponents-and-supporters-do-you-think-trump-deserves-to-be-executed/930209/62 "2021-01-20T08:09:20Z")
> [@Turki-lurki](#): > > Thinking of the separated families, kids in cages, brutalization of refuges and the abandonment of Kurds on the battlefield. I could pull the trap door lever without a second thought. Although Trump is unusually bad, most modern U.S. presidents have some “rap sheet” simply by virtue of thousands of decisions having to be made in the course of their presidencies. Obama’s administration was the one that first built the cages, deported a great many people, and Obama also ordered plenty of drone strikes that killed collateral-damage civilians, for instance - and his withdrawal from Iraq indirectly led to the rise of ISIS in 2014. GWBush’s war in Iraq directly or indirectly lead to hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths. Clinton ordered a strike on the El-Shifa pharmaceutical facility in Sudan that led to loss of innocent life. GHWBush’s Gulf War involved the infamous “Highway of Death” and “Battle of the Junkyard.” Reagan propped up dictators. Every modern U.S. president could be executed. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-opponents-and-supporters-do-you-think-trump-deserves-to-be-executed/930209/63 "2021-01-20T08:24:17Z")
I don’t support the death penalty, period. Therefore I don’t support the notion that Trump deserves to be put to death, regardless of his alleged crimes. Having said that, the vision of him living in protective custody, inside a max-security prison somewhere in the tropics sans aircon and a functioning toilet, reliant upon the goodwill of his guards yada yada…well, you get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-opponents-and-supporters-do-you-think-trump-deserves-to-be-executed/930209/64 "2021-01-22T15:12:01Z")
I do not support the death penalty under any circumstance. I would prefer that Don the Con be sentenced to life in Gitmo, together with all those who stormed the Capitol. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-opponents-and-supporters-do-you-think-trump-deserves-to-be-executed/930209/65 "2021-01-22T17:06:51Z")
I thought it was a principle that we don’t execute mental defectives. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-opponents-and-supporters-do-you-think-trump-deserves-to-be-executed/930209/66 "2021-01-22T18:37:09Z")
Well, we could take care of that “on Fifth Avenue and no one would care.” 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-penalty-opponents-and-supporters-do-you-think-trump-deserves-to-be-executed/930209.md?page=3)