Iif I was President, I would sign an executive order allowing me to personally choose and oversee the punishments for convicted criminals. For example, if I was President, I would personally punish Michael Vick and his buddies for their animal abusing. I would have them arrested, I would send them to an arena, and I would have cops beat the crap out of them and tie steak to them and have the pitbulls they abused tear them apart in public to show I am no-nonsense. If that failed to kill them, I would personally execute them in front of everyone by shooting them. I would have public executions of murderers and other capital criminals or other punishments, like dragging the criminal behind a car throughout a city, having a public stoning, cutting his body parts out in public, having animals kill the criminal, or sending the criminal to a gas chamber.
2007-07-22 10:23:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Courts do that.
2007-07-22 10:58:25 · answer #1 · answered by Mysterio 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that that statement pretty much violates all of the value and morals that America stands for, not to mention a bunch of laws and many, many pages of our Constitution. How does violently killing someone help in your quest for animal rights, and what's with the police brutality? Answering your original question- no, the executive branch doesn't get to choose punishments, that would be the judicial branch's job. Good luck running for president, the media will have a lot of fun with your campaign. By the way, do the words "Eighth Amendment" mean anything to you?
2007-07-22 17:40:14 · answer #2 · answered by theskyis_blue 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, you could sign that executive order.
But it's completely illegal and unconstitutional.
Punishments are assigned by the courts. According to the laws set forth by the legislature. The executive has no say in the matter.
And the president has no say -- and cannot even pardon -- people convicted in state courts. The president only has pardon (or commutation) authority over federal court sentences.
So, go ahead and sign that executive order. It's meaningless under the law.
2007-07-22 17:27:37 · answer #3 · answered by coragryph 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
NO! The judge does that after pre-sentence investigation. In today's world our media arrests, charges, tries, convicts and sentences an offender on the courthouse steps.
2007-07-22 17:29:20 · answer #4 · answered by Mary W 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you were president, you would certainly not have time to personally sentence every criminal. Your animal abuse idea is tyrannic!
2007-07-22 17:35:14 · answer #5 · answered by LIGER20498 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
so you are saying "cruel and unusual punishment is ok?"
sicko.
2007-07-22 17:26:46 · answer #6 · answered by labohemianartist 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋