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VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. Trump never called for the execution of the Central Park Five, though he did call for the death penalty for murder.
Members of the Central Park Five appeared onstage on Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. They were accused of gang raping a female jogger in Central Park, New York City, in 1989. Their guilt was widely accepted by the public, especially as several of them confessed to the crime. They were released when someone else said that he had raped the victim, Trisha Meili, and that he had acted alone.or guardians. Defense attorneys spent weeks attacking the confessions as “coerced,” but two multicultural juries and the trial judge concluded that the confessions were voluntary.
Donald Trump did not specifically call for the execution of the Central Park Five. He reacted to the incident by denouncing crime in the city in general and calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty in general. Read the ad for yourself.Trump’s critics argue that given the context of public outrage about the rape, calling for the death penalty for murder was an inflammatory thing to say.on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET .
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