Capital Punishment
New DOJ Execution Rules Allow Firing Squad, Electrocution
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As lethal injection has come under increasing legal assault, the Supreme Court has rejected challenges to it. President-elect Joe Biden opposes the federal death penalty.
Capital Punishment
Death Penalty Support in U.S. Lowest In Five Decades
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For a fourth consecutive year, fewer than six in 10 Americans (55 percent) are in favor of the death penalty for convicted murderers, Gallup reports.
Capital Punishment
Barr Schedules Three More Executions Before Jan. 20
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Eight federal inmates have been executed this year and two others already were scheduled to be put to death before Attorney General William Barr add three more names to the list.
Capital Punishment
Eighth Inmate is Executed as Trump Term Nears End
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The Justice Department has carried out more lethal injections in the past four months than the federal government executed over the previous three decades. President-elect Joe Biden will work to eliminate federal capital punishment.
Capital Punishment
Appeals Court Allows Two Federal Executions
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Orlando Hall is scheduled to be put to death on Thursday. A federal appeals court criticized the Justice Department for not getting prescriptions for lethal injections.
Capital Punishment
Woman’s Execution Delay Sought, Lawyers Get COVID-19
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Two attorneys representing the only woman with a federal death sentence likely caught COVID-19 at the Texas prison where the woman is being held. They seek a delay in Lisa Montgomery’s Dec. 8 execution so they can finish a clemency petition.
Capital Punishment
Biden To End Federal Executions After 10 Under Trump
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The Trump administration resumed federal executions after 17 years, with the first woman in a federal case in 70 years to be put to death next month. Joe Biden opposes the death penalty after having favored it.
Capital Punishment
CA’s Newsom, DAs Seek Restrictions on Death Penalty
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has already declared a moratorium on executions in the state, went a step further Monday with an unprecedented court filing that asserted the state’s death penalty law is applied in a racist manner against African Americans. Four district attorneys file a similar brief in the state supreme court.
Capital Punishment
First Federal Execution of Woman Since 1953 is Scheduled
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Lisa Montgomery is to be put to death on Dec. 8 for killing a pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her abdomen.
TCR Special Reports
Death Row’s Other Victims: Families of the Condemned
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In death penalty cases, the media usually focuses on the victim’s family and the condemned prisoner’s crime. Yet the pain of the families of those put to death is also real, and long-lasting, as journalist Jodie Sinclair discovered when she interviewed relatives of two men executed in Texas.