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Former Vice President Mike Pence wants to speed up federal executions for people convicted of carrying out mass shootings. Pence also wants other steps including providing law enforcement with “what they need” and more federal funding for school guards. “But at the end of the day, I also believe that justice delayed is justice denied. And I'm calling for an expedited federal death penalty for anyone engaged in a mass shooting like took place in Jacksonville,” Pence told CBS News’s Face The Nation on Sunday.

We are taking a closer look into a tweet by Governor Greg Abbott where he’s asking the legislature to speed up the death penalty process for convicted mass murderers. This is following the mass shootings in El Paso and Odessa. According to a death penalty lawyer, death penalty cases in Texas are actually tried pretty quick. Things slow down when they hit the Federal Court of Appeals. In the tweet, the Governor linked to an article from the Blaze. The article cites a Bloomberg article stating the Department of Justice is drafting legislation to speed up the execution of people convicted of mass murder. According to Joe Hoelscher, the managing attorney with Hoelscher, Gebbia, Cepeda PLLC, there are federal laws in place which would allow for a faster appeals process in a provision in the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. He says the state tried to apply for that provision a couple years ago, but Texas didn’t qualify. “We are fully capable of putting i...

Para el gobierno de Donald Trump, una solución ante los tiroteos masivos que una y otra vez producen masacres de inocentes y enlutan al país parece ser también matar lo más rápido que sea posible. En este caso, la ejecución expedita de aquellas personas que sean halladas culpables en tribunales federales de asesinato en masa. Según reportes del periódico The Hill, el Departamento de Justicia ha elaborado un borrador de una iniciativa de ley que permitiría las ejecuciones expeditas de reos culpables de asesinatos masivos, y en ello han trabajado tanto el vicepresidente Mike Pence como el secretario de Justicia William Barr. No se han revelado más detalles de esa iniciativa pero se trataría de una reacción luego de que en menos de un mes se desataran tres tiroteos letales en El Paso y Odessa, Texas, y en Dayton, Ohio, que se suman a los muchos que han una y otra vez asolado el país. La noción de que ejecutar de modo pronto a esos criminales (un reo en el corredor de la...

Thirteen people died over Labor Day weekend as a result of mass shootings. Eight were killed on Saturday when a 36-year-old gunman rampaged through Midland and Odessa , in West Texas. On Monday, five members of the same family were killed in Elkmont, Alabama ; a 14-year-old boy — who was also a relative — confessed to shooting them all. Both shootings occurred roughly a month after two previous back-to-back massacres: the killing of 22 mostly Hispanic people by a white supremacist at an El Paso  Walmart on August 3, and that of nine more the next day in Dayton, Ohio , including the shooter’s sister. The shootings and their immediate aftermath are linked by three components: Aggrieved young men, easy access to firearms, and thus-far empty promises from President Trump to curtail their recurrence. The first of these factors calls for a societywide overhaul of how boys are conditioned to handle frustration. But the latter two are less intractable: After years of Democratic effo...

Click here to Google translate this article into your own language. Se acelerará la ejecución de los condenados cuando se les declare culpables de una masacre indiscriminada El Gobierno de Estados Unidos prepara una nueva normativa penal que acelerará la ejecución de los condenados a pena de muerte cuando se les declare culpables de una masacre indiscriminada como las que han provocado 89 muertos y 240 heridos sólo este año.  En lugar de restringir la tenencia de armas, como han pedido numerosos políticos demócratas, la Casa Blanca ha optado por endurecer las penas y agilizar los ajusticiamientos, que en condiciones normales pueden demorarse hasta 10 años. Fue Marc Short, jefe de gabinete del vicepresidente Mike Pence, quien reveló el lunes durante una visita oficial a Polonia que ya existe un borrador para agilizar la pena de muerte elaborado por el fiscal general [ministro de Justicia] William Barr.  Será parte de un ambicioso paquete de reformas legi...

AUSTIN, Texas (FOX 7 Austin) - Late Monday night, Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted that he is working on a legislative package and “expedited executions for mass shooters would be a nice addition.” “You just cannot expedite something like that,” criminal defense attorney Darla Davis said. "You shouldn't even talk about expediting something like that." Davis is also frustrated with mass shootings in Texas, but she feels Abbott's idea would set the wrong precedent. “We should not be putting in a fast pass to the gurney,” she said. Davis worked on both sides, as a prosecutor for 24 years and now as a defense attorney. “As a prosecutor I never wanted to skip a step, especially if somebody was going to get the death penalty," Davis said. "All of their constitutional rights were seen to by competent lawyers and that's what we want." Amid calls for a special session after a violent month of mass shootings in the state, the governor has n...

Leading Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden rejected the idea of speeding up executions for mass slayings, a measure the Trump administration plans to pursue. The White House will back legislation drafted by the Justice Department to expedite the death penalty for people convicted of mass murder, Marc Short, chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence told reporters traveling with Pence between Poland and Ireland on Monday. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren rolled her eyes at the idea when asked at an event in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. “I don’t support the death penalty,” she said during a gaggle with reporters. She said she’d support a government buyback of weapons. RELATED | White House focuses on death penalty in piecemeal gun control package “We need to treat this as the public health emergency that it is,” Warren said. “And it’s going to take a lot of pieces and a lot of changes that we need to do to bring down deat...

Washington (CNN) -- The Trump administration is preparing a package of legislative measures responding to a spate of recent mass shootings, aides said Monday, even as White House and congressional staffs remain far apart on the best path forward. The package will include legislation that would expedite the death penalty for people found guilty of mass killings, Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff told reporters. But it's unlikely to include new provisions expanding background checks on gun sales after President Donald Trump backed off support for such steps following outcry from the National Rifle Association and warnings about the political consequences. The issue assumed new attention following another shooting over the weekend in West Texas, which killed seven people and wounded almost two dozen others. Trump told reporters afterward that the latest massacre -- one in a string of deadly episodes this summer -- was unlikely to change the calculus in Wash...

President Donald Trump wants the death penalty process streamlined for mass shooters, and the Justice Department announced that it has drafted legislation. The Justice Department has finished drafting legislation that would speed up the federal death penalty process for mass shooters, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, told CBS News on Monday. RELATED |  White House focuses on death penalty in piecemeal gun control package The measure comes less than two months after Attorney General William Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to resume capital punishment, something it hadn’t done since 2003.  Barr reportedly worked with Pence’s policy team to draft the legislation, and it’ll likely be included in a White House package of gun safety proposals that go to Congress. President Donald Trump said earlier this month that he wanted mass murderers to face the death penalty “quickly” and “decisively,” and “without years of delay.” He ...

There’s an ongoing and uncivil war between many Republicans and Democrats. But two former Ohio governors have called a truce and created a friendship. And though they’re from different parties, Republican Bob Taft and Democrat Ted Strickland have a lot of views in common. Bob Taft became governor in 1999. His first year in office, Cleveland killer Wilford Berry became the first inmate to die since Ohio revised its death penalty after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and resumed executions.  Two dozen people were put to death in Taft’s eight years in office. But he said he felt it was part of the job. “I felt that unless there really was a mistake in law or evidence that it should proceed pursuant to law. But having gone through that experience and having examined the death penalty after being out of office, I’m developing growing reservations about it,” Taft said. Taft’s successor Ted Strickland took over in 2007. Seventeen people were executed during his four years – inc...