Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls for Swift Trial, Conviction, and Execution of Man Accused of Burning Woman Alive on NYC Subway
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is demanding swift justice for the man accused of setting a woman on fire on a New York City subway train. Greene took to social media to express her outrage over the gruesome incident, in which 33-year-old Guatemalan national Sebastian Zapeta is accused of setting a woman on fire while on a train in Brooklyn.
“I can’t watch the video anymore. And how it seems like no one tried to save her is beyond me. Maybe they did but it doesn’t seem like it,” Greene wrote on social media. “Death penalty, don’t waste money on a lengthy trial. Convict him and finish him. What he did is so incredibly evil.”
Zapeta faces charges of first- and second-degree murder, and first-degree arson, with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment with no parole. Other members of Congress, including Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., have also weighed in on the case, with Luna calling for capital punishment and Biggs blaming the incident on Democrats’ “soft-on-crime policies.”
The New York City Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch noted that Zapeta allegedly used a lighter to ignite the victim’s clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds. Assistant District Attorney Ari Rottenberg alleged that the suspect fanned the fire with a shirt.
Zapeta’s next court appearance is scheduled for December 27. The suspect has been previously deported from the U.S. in 2018, but re-entered the country illegally at some point on an unknown date and location.