Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is asking for the swift trial, conviction, and execution of the person charged in reference to the grotesque homicide of a girl burned alive on a New York Metropolis subway.
The outspoken Republican took to social media on Tuesday to handle the incident, by which Guatemalan nationwide Sebastian Zapeta, 33, is accused of setting a girl on fireplace whereas on a prepare in Brooklyn.
“Loss of life penalty, don’t waste cash on a prolonged trial. Convict him and end him. What he did is so extremely evil,” Greene declared in a publish on X. “I can’t watch the video anymore. And the way it looks like nobody tried to save lots of her is past me. Possibly they did however it doesn’t seem to be it.”
Zapeta faces fees of first- and second-degree homicide, and first-degree arson, with a most sentence of life imprisonment with no parole.
SANCTUARY CITY NEW YORK PRESSURED TO MAKE DRASTIC CHANGE AFTER ILLEGAL MIGRANT ALLEGEDLY BURNS WOMAN ALIVEÂ
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., gestures whereas talking as United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies earlier than the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee throughout a listening to on the Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing on July 22, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Photographs)
Greene shouldn’t be the one member of Congress to weigh in on the case.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., additionally known as for capital punishment.Â
“Loss of life penalty,” she tweeted.
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Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., declared in a publish on X, “A girl was deliberately lit on fireplace on the subway at present. Democrats’ soft-on-crime insurance policies don’t work.”Â
Sebastian Zapeta, accused of setting a girl on fireplace inside a New York Metropolis subway prepare, seems in courtroom, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024, in New York. (AP Picture/Curtis Means by way of Pool)
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New York Metropolis Police Division Commissioner Jessica Tisch famous throughout remarks on Sunday that Zapeta allegedly “used what we consider to be a lighter to ignite the sufferer’s clothes, which turned absolutely engulfed in a matter of seconds.” Assistant District Lawyer Ari Rottenberg alleged in courtroom on Tuesday that the suspect fanned the fireplace with a shirt.
Zapeta’s subsequent courtroom look is scheduled for December 27, in keeping with on-line data.
Sebastian Zapeta, accused of setting a girl on fireplace inside a New York Metropolis subway prepare, seems in courtroom, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024, in New York. (AP Picture/Curtis Means by way of Pool)
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A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson stated in a press release that Zapeta had been faraway from the U.S. in 2018 after which  re-entered the nation illegally sooner or later “on an unknown date and site.”
Fox Information’ Invoice Melugin contributed to this report
