Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for death penalty for illegal alien who allegedly set woman on fire

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., took to social media on Tuesday to call for a swift trial, conviction and execution of the illegal alien who was arrested for the alleged murder of a woman who was brutally set on fire in a New York City subway on Sunday. 

"Death penalty, don’t waste money on a lengthy trial. Convict him and finish him. What he did is so incredibly evil," Greene stated in a post on X. "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 is referring to Guatemalan national Sebastian Zapeta, 33, who entered the U.S. illegally in 2018, was deported a week later, and entered the country again at some point. He now faces charges of first- and second-degree murder, and first-degree arson, carrying a maximum sentence of life imprisonment with no parole, according to Fox News. 

Other GOP members of Congress weighed in. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., tweeted "Death penalty." Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., declared on X, "A woman was intentionally lit on fire on the subway today. Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies do not work."  

According to New York City Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Zapeta allegedly "used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim's clothing, which became fully engulfed in a matter of seconds."