{"id":40945,"date":"2025-05-08T12:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/illegal-immigrant-murderers-could-face-death-penalty-under-new-gop-bill\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:51:17","slug":"illegal-immigrant-murderers-could-face-death-penalty-under-new-gop-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/illegal-immigrant-murderers-could-face-death-penalty-under-new-gop-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal immigrant murderers could face death penalty under new GOP bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIRST ON FOX:<\/strong> A House Republican is seeking to ensure illegal immigrants<\/a> who commit murder in the U.S. are eligible for the death penalty in all 50 states.<\/p>\n

Rep. Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas, is introducing a bill on Thursday called the Justice for Victims of Illegal Alien Murder Act, which would establish a new class of federal criminal offenses specifically directed at convicted murderers who are in the country illegally.<\/p>\n

It would make those criminals eligible for life in prison or the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder.<\/p>\n

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Such a bill would strengthen federal prosecutors’ claims of jurisdiction over such crimes, even in states where the death penalty is abolished.<\/p>\n

“<\/i>We can hold those individuals accountable at the federal level because they’re here illegally. And here we are with that legislation,” Luttrell told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

He said part of the impetus for the legislation was a case<\/a> in his home state of Texas in 2023 when a man who had been deported multiple times was arrested for killing five people in the U.S.<\/p>\n

“That guy shouldn’t have been here as well. He had been deported a couple times, snuck back across the border, and now this happened. It’s time for us to step in and do this,” Luttrell said.<\/p>\n

It’s also spurred partially by President Donald Trump<\/a>, who signed an executive order in January mandating the death penalty for illegal immigrants who commit “all crimes of a severity demanding its use” and for people who murder police officers.<\/p>\n

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Luttrell said he’s hopeful at least some Democrats will support the bill as well.<\/p>\n

“I do not run away from those conversations at all, because I think it’s necessary. That shows the American people that we’re working together on this. The American public voted for this administration because of the border,” he said.<\/p>\n

Luttrell’s bill is backed by seven House Republican co-sponsors, including Republican Study Committee Chair August Pfluger, R-Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FIRST ON FOX: A House Republican is seeking to ensure illegal immigrants who commit murder in the U.S. are eligible for the death penalty in all 50 states. Rep. Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas, is introducing a bill on Thursday called the Justice for Victims of Illegal Alien Murder Act, which would establish a new class of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}