16 October—After celebrating West Hartford-born Noah Webster’s 268^th birthday and the 110^th anniversary of the opening of the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn (the real Brooklyn, in New York), let’s turn our thoughts to all the unfortunate bloodthirsty MAGA morons and other sickos who will be deprived of the ecstatic thrill and unspeakable pleasure of witnessing in real time—as the rifles are being fired—the execution of Nidal Hasan on 3 December.

Of course, they have every right to put the blame for the spectacle’s cancellation on Donald Trump, because despite his own fondness for public executions and other outrages he succumbed to squeamish pressure and countermanded his warlord-executioner’s best-laid plan.

One would have expected Trump to use his SCOTUS-given, constantly abused authority to put the execution on his despicable streaming channel as a pay-per-view special. It was bound to be a winner, but that’s another story.

What Trump should have done to accommodate the squeamish and at the same time keep his flock of fools happy is to volunteer himself to be executed. Honestly and realistically, a plurality, a vast majority of Americans and good people of the world—even the most squeamish—would pay to see Donald Trump executed rather than some Muslim murderer.

Problem is, Donald Trump habitually thinks only of himself, so he couldn’t care less about doing the right and honorable thing for any reason. (He could have offed himself any time in his 80 rotten years, for instance, but didn’t. Sadly.)

So in that case there would have to be a justiciable reason to execute him. And of course there is. Beyond any doubt. Not a reason, but reasons, in fact. Because in federal law execution is authorized for serious capital offenses including but not limited to first-degree murder, espionage, and treason.

First degree murder? Trump may not have pulled the trigger, but he authorized and continues to authorize not only the extrajudicial murder of what his enablers and defenders call drug traffickers, but also all the victims of his undeclared war on—as opposed to with—Iran, including school children.

Espionage? We don’t know precisely what top secrets Trump has confided in his fellow dictators, including Vladimir Putrid, but it’s a safe bet he’s spilled the secrets—if only to impress them, as he did with secrets in his Mar-a-Lago bathroom.

Treason? The Constitution defines that in Article III: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them [the United States, construed at the time as a plural noun], or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” Trump has blatantly weaponized his whole administration against the United States, adhered to—sided with and certainly given aid and comfort to—foreign nations, including but not limited to Russia—that are at war with the United States.

Yes indeed, Trump should be executed for murder, espionage, and treason. But only after a fair trial . . .