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Here’s A Not-So-Modest Proposal: Bring Back Public Executions

There are multiple high-profile criminals in custody currently who should be convicted and executed promptly and publicly.

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Given another recent assassination attempt on President Trump’s life and the increasing prevalence of left-wing domestic violence in America over the past decade, we should pursue what ought not be a controversial solution: bringing back swift, guaranteed public executions.

When President McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz on Sept. 6, 1901, Czolgosz was convicted and executed by Oct. 29, 1901. In our own time, there are multiple high-profile criminals currently in custody who should be convicted and executed promptly and publicly. Ryan Routh, convicted in federal court for his assassination attempt on Trump at Mar-a-Lago in September 2024, is serving a life sentence. Why do we tolerate his imprisonment, even as we have continued to witness ongoing attempts on the life of the president and vice president? Routh should be executed publicly to send the clearest message to all the enemies who entertain ideas about assassinating President Trump.

Cole Allen, the recent would-be assassin, should also be convicted and executed publicly. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan alien who attacked and shot two national guardsmen in Washington, D.C., last Thanksgiving, should be convicted and executed publicly. DeCarlos Brown, the black felon with 14 prior arrests who stabbed Iryna Zarutska on the rail in Charlotte, was pronounced mentally incompetent by the state court and thus “incapable to proceed” to trial. Thankfully, President Trump’s Department of Justice, fulfilling the president’s own promises, brought federal charges against Brown in federal court, so he is not likely to get off the hook now. He should be convicted and executed as quickly as possible. Former FedEx driver Tanner Horner, convicted of murdering seven-year-old Athena Strand in 2022, was recently sentenced to the death penalty in Texas. This is undoubtedly encouraging — a prime example of someone who deserves execution — but even this sentence comes years after the crime was committed.

In all of these cases mentioned, the guilt of the accused is not at all in question; it is absurd that these criminals have not already been........

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