Rep. Ayanna Pressley says, like Trump, his attempt to reinstate death penalty is ‘flawed and deeply racist’
U.S. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., slammed President Donald Trump for calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty in Washington, D.C. “Like Donald Trump himself, the death penalty is flawed and deeply racist. It is a fundamentally unjust punishment that has no place in any society,” said Pressley in a statement after Trump said on Tuesday that the death penalty is a “very strong preventative” against crime. Pressley, who has sponsored federal legislation to prohibit the death penalty, noted that […]