They Want Death Without Limits — Heritage’s "Comprehensive Crime" Bill to Expand Eligible Crimes for Execution
What began as Heritage’s first big policy win under Reagan is being stretched into a full-blown plan for control through Project 2025.
Last night, just after midnight, another post from Donald Trump showed up on Truth Social. By now we are all used to his nocturnal outbursts, the rambling rants that hit the feed long after most people are asleep.
But this one was different. He announced that he was working with Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune on something he called a “Comprehensive Crime Bill.”
Trump is not the kind of man who reaches for a word like “comprehensive.”
That word has four syllables. It looked scripted. So I did what any skeptic does, and I searched it. I expected a reddit post or an article about it.
Instead, what I found pulled me straight back into 1984.
Brought to you by the Makers of Project 2025: The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984.
The “Comprehensive Crime Bill” is not some new invention. It is a ghost from the Reagan era, drafted from the Heritage Foundation’s very first Mandate for Leadership plan by Sen. Strom Thurmond & Rep. Hamilton Fish.
Yes, even back then, Heritage had the keys to the kingdom. Reagan loved their plan so much he handed out copies to his entire Cabinet to use as reference. Something the Heritage Foundation still brags about to this day.
Out of that blueprint came the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, a law that set mandatory minimums for sentencing, ballooned the prison population, and ushered in the age of mass incarceration.
Just in time for GEO Group and CoreCivic to cash in:
CoreCivic, then known as CCA, scored its first Tennessee jail contract in 1984. Wackenhut, now known as GEO Group, followed in the late ’80s with state and federal deals. The names may have changed, but the business (profiting from humans in cages) never did. They’re the largest private cages in the U.S and their riches have grown tenfold under the Trump administration. All that lobbying they did for him seems to to have paid off.
GEO Group pulled in $353 million in new ICE contracts and CoreCivic $148 million, while together they gave nearly $2.8 million to Trump, including $500,000 each for his inauguration.
The 1980’s were Heritage’s victory lap, a demonstration of just how much power they could wield through a willing president. This time around, they are not planning to give it back. Their newest Mandate for Leadership, better known as Project 2025, makes sure of it.
Enter Chapter 17: Department of Justice
In Project 2025, the word crime appears 83 times most of them in this chapter. But Heritage’s definition of crime stretches well beyond the law. It is ideology dressed up as policy, a blueprint for consolidating power.
In the 1980s, they boasted of achieving 60 percent of their agenda under Reagan. They still do on their website. Heritage’s power has only multiplied since the 1980s, which makes the idea of a second “Comprehensive Crime Bill” all the more dangerous.
The first “Comprehensive Crime” bill was born from their agenda and overhauled American law for the first time. The next is scarier:
1 & 2 — Federal Takeover of the Local Law & Targeting Prosecutors
Heritage wants the Department of Justice to override state and local prosecutors whenever they decline to file charges or aren’t harsh enough for their liking.
Specifically, they speak using the “dual sovereign” doctrine, a person can be charged by both state and federal governments for the same act. That means if a district attorney drops a drug case, the DOJ could indict anyway. Because of the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act, federal convictions mean no parole.
They also call for fines, and even arrest for those who fail to meet their expectations on putting people in their friends private prisons.
The result would be lifelong incarceration under federal control.
3 — Increased Mandatory Minimums and Sentencing Power
Congress sets mandatory minimum sentences, and new fentanyl bills are already moving forward. We’ve repeatedly seen Trump use Fentanyl as an excuse to harass other countries, create a trade war, and illegally send people to foreign prisons. So, as you can imagine this is only the beginning.
Something important to talk about is The U.S. Sentencing Commission, created under the original 1984. This commission “guides” federal judges on how to charge people. As of now, the commission has five members but two empty seats. One seat expires on Halloween this year. Judge Carlton Reeves leads it until 2027, but Trump will soon fill the vacancies. Once he does, expect tougher longer sentences, and fewer chances for release.
4 & 5 — Weaponizing Civil Rights Branch to Target “Reverse Discrimination” and Moving Elections from Civil Rights Branch to Criminal
Project 2025 makes clear that the Civil Rights Division will no longer exist in the form we know it. Cases of “voter fraud” and “discrimination” would be stripped from Civil Rights and handed to the DOJ’s Criminal Division, turning a law once used against KKK intimidation into a tool for prosecuting election officials who simply help voters fix mistakes.
At the same time, Heritage reframes equity and DEI programs as “reverse discrimination,” ordering the Civil Rights Division to spend its energy investigating and punishing schools, employers, and governments that run diversity programs.
They aren’t just getting rid of DEI, they’re weaponizing it against us.
The division that once protected marginalized people would be weaponized to criminalize voting access and dismantle equity efforts, flipping civil rights enforcement on its head.
The Real ‘Meat and Potatoes’ of Chapter 17
6 & 7 — Expansion of the Death Penalty & Capital Punishment for Crimes without Murder
Trump already reinstated the federal death penalty via executive order on inauguration day and in that same month signed an order to secure more lethal injection drugs. Project 2025 calls for even more.
First, they call for the immediate execution of the 44 individuals on death row at the time. And as of August 2025, the DOJ has executed 27 people from federal death row. The expectation is that more executions will follow.
At the same time, they’ve been pushing for death penalty in the news. Remember, the DOJ specifically wants the death penalty for Luigi Mangione. His victim was the United Healthcare CEO. He wasn’t a terrorist or a serial killer. The death penalty is excessive for this case but the elites – they want to make an example of him – as they want people scared to come for them.
It also expands capital punishment to non-homicide crimes. They specifically name that it should begin with capital punishment in someone charged with sexual abuse of a minor. This is a deliberate choice because no one wants to oppose punishing child predators. I know I don’t.
But they chose this as a “token” issue. Something they don’t care about — evident by their support of Trump — but know will have bipartisan support especially after ongoing Epstein scandal.
Even if you agree with the idea, changing this precedent should not be done by the hands of this administration. It will put us in danger. If death is an option for non-murder crimes, it can be extended to anything if AG Bondi gets her way.
So, when reading this part of Project 2025, I also urge you also read the executive order. It puts it all together, and you start to see the bigger picture.
“The Attorney General shall take all appropriate action to seek the overruling of Supreme Court precedents that limit the authority of State and Federal governments to impose capital punishment.”
Look closely at the executive order and it becomes clear that it targets immigrants, and pushes for the removal of Supreme Court rulings that limit who the government can execute. The text says that if capital punishment is available, the state should pursue it without even considering life sentences.
And the rulings they want to overturn? They are the ones that currently protect minors, people with intellectual disabilities, and others from execution. These are historical rulings like Atkins v. Virginia (2002) that banned executions of people with intellectual disabilities, or Roper v. Simmons (2005) that banned executions of kids under 18.
Now, notice that they do not use the word “murder” when it comes to capital punishment for an immigrants crime. Instead, they call for the death penalty for any immigrant convicted of a “capital crime.”
Even calling for “special attention” to be drawn to those cases.
The choice of language is deliberate. When you read what Chapter 17 proposes, the strategy becomes clear. Once we start allowing executions Americans for one crime —- no matter how abhorrent —we open the door for capital punishment for whatever “law” the Trump administration makes up that week.
8 & 9 — FBI Loyalty to the President & End of 10 Year Term Limit for FBI Director
Chapter 17 suggests removing the FBI Director’s ten-year term limit and making the role indefinite.
Trump already placed Kash Patel in charge. Project 2025 repeatedly says the FBI must be “overhauled” and filled with people loyal to the president’s “national interest” aka the Heritage Agenda.
It reinforces this idea repeatedly. This is something they cannot stress enough as critical to their mission. So, maybe this is what we need to stop first.
They also want to remove term limits for FBI Directors, and allow for lifetime placements. Right now, the FBI Director is Kash Patel — the same Kash Patel who helped bury intelligence reports, shielded Trump from investigations, and openly pledged loyalty to him over the law.
The goal is clear. They want to transform the FBI into a presidential enforcement arm. Loyalty and polygraph tests are already something being asked of given to our government employees in the Pentagon and FBI.
This happens while we’re watching Trump’s attorneys get lifelong judicial positions, and Bondi bend the law to keep the ones without in power. We’re watching our courts turn into a real time “People’s Court” from Nazi Germany. I give details about it in this article here.
10 — Abortion Pills as Federal Crimes
Project 2025 resurrects the Comstock Act, which criminalizes the mailing of abortion-related materials. This would include pills, medical equipment, or even information. They already kind of tried this in Texas in May but it was dismissed.
But if this were included, both senders and recipients could be prosecuted based on the text. It doesn’t specify exactly what they’d be charged with but given how Heritage equates a fetus with a child, it is not far-fetched to imagine them trying to classify abortion as homicide.
With their push to expand the death penalty, it is possible they could even frame abortion as a capital crime.
Final Thoughts
This is the world they are building in plain sight. A government that no longer shields the vulnerable but hunts them. A justice system that punishes dissent and rewards loyalty. A death penalty stretched and twisted until it can reach anyone they decide deserves to be silenced. It reads like a dystopian novel, but it is not fiction. It is a manual, already written, already moving into place.
Do not look away and do not write this off as impossible. We are standing where others once stood, in the moment before the machinery locks into place. They want us to feel small, powerless, and divided. We are not. We have a voice, we have the truth, and we still have the power to resist.
So speak, organize, and refuse to give them silence. Support independent media. Show up in your community. Protect your neighbors. Challenge every lie. The only way Heritage keeps control is if we surrender it to them.
History is not finished being written. Do not give them the ending they want.
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Thank you for another amazing article which is nauseating to read let alone comprehend the depths of depravity of thought which has been festering since the 1980’s.
Monsters! I despised Reagan as my state’s Governor and as POTUS…Trump is even worse