Looks like the Wall has failed to stop little Teddy fleeing from his country of origin to a more congenial destination …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56117800

This is the final lame duck killing, we are told: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55687279

And Christians should remember that the Church’s teaching has recently been ‘clarified’: “inadmissable” under all circumstances. Before there was a bit of a ‘get out’ clause, but Francis has scrubbed that.

For me what is most shocking about these latest judicial killings the motivation behind them: it was about Trump is showing that he still had the power of life and death. Even more perhaps than the events on the 6th, this action reveals something particularly vile about the character of this utterly revolting man.

I’m with you all the way on this Richard.

I agree that the existence of capital punishment in a civilised western society is “a huge … societal problem”. Furthermore, these five executions either carried out, or scheduled to be carried out (I think that the last one is due to happen in a couple of days’ time), over the imprimatur of an outgoing president are dramatically out of line with over a century’s worth of precedent.

If it was so necessary or desirable to kill these prisoners, why wasn’t it done before the election? My view is this: these unprecedented executions were nothing other than deadly dick-waving on the part of a psychopathic, narcissistic, dishonest dirty old man who had just lost and election.

It is hard for me to express the extent of my fury on this matter.