Rep. Burchett Calls for Public Executions for Child Predators: ‘Short Piece of Rope on a Tall Tree, Let ‘em Swing’

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BURCHETT: “Total disclosure. Total disclosure, I passed some of the toughest laws in the country and they were vaguely unconstitutional. I passed the death penalty on child molesters, Tennessee, they overruled it. But we got a good state — we got a good Supreme Court in the state, and they’ve changed the law, now there is a death penalty option. But yeah, they need to be exposed. These dirtbags, we need to pull them out, need to convict them. I’d go public executions. I’m not — I’m not lying either. I would — I’m not just full of bravado. I’d hang them up tall, you know, short piece of rope on a tall tree, and let them swing, let God decide what to do with them, because I’m sick of them. These people, they prey upon these kids. They understand the system. They go to jail. They get their sentences flattened out. I mean, I proposed chemical castration long before it was, and everybody’s like, oh man, Constitution. I said, what about the Constitution of those poor kids they violated? They have a lifetime sentence, Benny. And it’s shame on us for covering for these dirtbags. We ought to be demanding this.”