Attorney General William Barr talks with members of the press in Montana last month. (AP) Attorney General William Barr said in July the federal government would resume capital punishment and set up the executions of five death-row prisoners for December and January, ending an unofficial decade-long moratorium on federal executions. Barr stated the DOJ owed it to the victims’families to bring out the
law and would be ready to take the issue to the Supreme Court if needed. DEATH ROW INMATE WITH RARE CONDITION MAY SUFFER EXCRUTIATINGLY PAINFUL DEATH, LAWYERS SAY A judge temporarily stopped the executions after some of the picked inmates
challenged the brand-new execution procedures. The inmates argued that the federal government was preventing correct methods in order to mistakenly execute prisoners rapidly. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
A federal execution has not taken location because 2003. In the last 16 years, a protracted legal fight has drawn out over the substance abuse in lethal injections.
Fox News’ Alex Pappas and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
A federal appeals court in Washington has actually supported a judgment blocking the Trump administration’s plan to resume federal executions after a 16-year hiatus.
The decision was handed down Monday by the D.C. Circuit. The Justice Department had asked the court to block the injunction put in place by a district court judge that stalled the executions of four convicted killers,
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