Trump administration wants to fast-track executions with electrocution, firing squads, lethal gas

The Trump administration wants to shorten the appeals process for people sentenced to death and add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as methods of execution, the Department of Justice announced in a report on Friday.

The report is the latest development in the Trump administration’s long campaign to execute as many people as possible. In the report, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche boasted of the execution spree President Donald Trump carried out during his first term. After a long de facto moratorium on federal executions, Trump oversaw 13 killings in his final six months before leaving office. In 2024, his successor, President Joe Biden, commuted the death sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row during his final days in office, leaving Trump — who openly fantasized about carrying out another rash of executions — with a nearly empty federal death row.

Good morning, good people! I hope this OT finds you all in fine fettle!

So, my client had been accused of grabbing his wife's arm, although no red marks or bruises were visible. They are in the midst of a divorce, and would it have been great for her to blame him for the split?

The DA wanted to dismiss it, as I did, but the Judge would not unless the woman said ok. She announced she didn't care. The Judge then said while looking at Facebook to see a video of his g'daughter hitting a home run in a play off game, he saw posts from folks in our county saying the justice system here was soft on crime. Because the posts were so nasty, he said he was gonna get tough because he didn't want to get slammed on Face Book.

I can't count how many judicial conduct rules he broke, and folks, I can't make this shit up.

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Well, it's another Friday. Surprising how fast time goes, specially when you're on the hook for a weekly essay. My hats off and mass respect to Joe Shikspack for producing the Evening Blues every Mon.-Fri. I would have gone crazy in less than two weeks if I had to post an essay with that much news and music five days a week.
It was sunny and 70s while the week went flying by. Rain in the forecast for this weekend.

Adult Bald Eagle

I'm wondering if anyone around here is familiar with this fellow and his rap:

Morning

The week certainly passed quickly. A few bits of informaton to ponder.

Erosion of our Institutions?
Ron Placone wrote a recent piece about the erosion of many of the institutions we need and use. His title centers on the tsa and air travel (‘The Destruction of the TSA and Air Travel’), and his subtitle is ‘The Latest Fascist Casualty’. I think his article is pretty good, and goes into far more than just the TSA.

He writes:

One of the elements of fascism is the complete erosion of all institutions. Air travel is the latest one in the US. Donald Trump successfully sent in his nazi infantry to patrol airports and the situation keeps getting worse. This is all part of a more elaborate plan in Project 2025 to privatize the TSA. But, let’s start at the beginning, shall we? My claim is that this is just the latest casualty in a fascist coup, is that’s what’s happening? Are our institutions being eroded?
Definitely.