Republican Arizona lawmaker makes post calling for execution of Democratic congresswoman

John Gillette on X called for people like' Pramila Jayapal to be hanged' in response to her video on anti-Trump protests

An Arizona Republican state representative who has expressed support for January 6 insurrectionists on Wednesday called for a Democratic congresswoman to be executed, as a response to a video clip.

The comment on X by state representative John Gillette of Kingman, Arizona, first reported by the Arizona Mirror, was a reaction to a short clip drawn from a YouTube video in March by US representative Pramila Jayapal, a longtime Democratic congresswoman representing Washington state, entitled The Resistance Lab." In the video, Jayapal discusses preparations for street protests against the Trump administration.