The gruesome murder of an innocent woman set on fire by a Guatemalan illegal alien has provoked public outrage and calls for swift punishment.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., issued a statement calling for the man accused in the horrific arson attack, 33-year-old Sebastian Zapeta, to be put to death.

"Death penalty, don’t waste money on a lengthy trial. Convict him and finish him. What he did is so incredibly evil," Greene declared 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."

Alien charged in brutal killing

The Trump administration deported Zapeta in 2018, but he broke into the U.S. again at an unknown time and location.

The suspect was living in one of New York City's migrant shelters, on Randall's Island, in 2023, and he had no known criminal history (besides crossing the border illegally.)

Zapeta is accused of lighting a woman on fire and watching her burn to death on a Brooklyn subway train Sunday morning.

Horrific video footage showed the man seated on a bench, nonchalantly watching the victim burn to death. The woman, who is believed to have been homeless, was burned so badly that she has not yet been identified.

Assistant District Attorney Ari Rottenberg alleged at Zapeta's first court appearance that he lit the woman's clothing on fire using a lighter and fanned the flames with his shirt.

The Guatemalan national said he has no recollection of the incident because he was drunk.

Leftist policies

Many have attributed the failure of bystanders to intervene to misguided crime policy - in particular, a chilling effect caused by New York's prosecution of Daniel Penny, the Good Samaritan acquitted of killing a dangerous and erratic homeless man on the subway.

The Zapeta case has also brought fresh criticism of the Democratic party's open border agenda, which ushered in a historic influx of aliens including some murderers and rapists during the Biden administration.

President Biden caused another outrage this week by commuting the sentences of nearly all federal prisoners condemned to die, just before Christmas.

President-elect Trump has pledged to seek capital punishment against the worst federal offenders when he returns to office in January, and he has specifically vowed to seek the death penalty for illegal aliens who kill Americans.

Capital punishment has been illegal in New York since 2004, so Zapeta won't face the ultimate penalty even if convicted - unless something changes.