Seventy-five years ago today in Miami, Giuseppe Zangara made a failed attempt to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the process mortally wounding Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak.
The next month, March 20th 1933, Giuseppe Zangara was executed.
- Executed within 5 weeks, imagine that happening today. Zangara would be at least a year away from trial. Lawyers eager for improved reputations clamoring to administer his defense, pro-bono. The defense would be simple to construct, anybody that attempts to assassinate a President must be insane. John Hinckley, Jr., was committed and currently resides at St. Elizabeth’s Mental Hospital in Washington. The patient now has supervised visits to his elderly parents, at their home. The murderer of Robert F. Kennedy, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, is periodically considered for parole. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray, who sat in prison from 1969 till his death in 1988.
- To attempt an assassination or any murder for that matter requires a detachment from reality whether it be by insanity or callousness. Regardless of the explanation, this is deadly behavior that only execution can prevent the repetition of. The government had it right in 1933, slap them down fast and hard.
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