July 25
USA:
Trump Justice Department to resume federal executions
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will resume capital
punishment for the first time in nearly 2 decades.
Attorney General William Barr has directed that executions for 5 death-row
inmates be scheduled. If carried out, they will be the first federal executions
since 2003.
Only 3 federal executions have taken place since 1988, according to the Death
Penalty Information Center. All 5 of the death-row inmates named in Thursday's
release were convicted for the murders of children.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has adopted a regulation that will require
federal authorities to use a single drug, pentobarbital, in federal executions,
according to the DOJ release. That drug is used by several states for lethal
injections.
“Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation
adopted by the people’s representatives in both houses of Congress and signed
by the President,” Barr said in a statement Thursday.
“Under Administrations of both parties, the Department of Justice has sought
the death penalty against the worst criminals, including these five murderers,
each of whom was convicted by a jury of his peers after a full and fair
proceeding. The Justice Department upholds the rule of law—and we owe it to the
victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice
system.”
(source: thehill.com)
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