Report: Federal execution numbers top states for 1st time
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In this Aug. 28, 2020, file photo, a no trespassing sign is displayed outside the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind. A newly released report says the U.S. government for the first time has carried out more civil executions in a year than all states combined as President Donald Trump oversaw a resumption of federal executions after a 17-year pause. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
CHICAGO – For the first time in history, the U.S. government has carried out more executions in a year than all states that still conduct executions, according to an annual report on the death penalty released Wednesday.
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Chicago For the first time in history, the U.S. government has carried out more executions in a year than all states that still conduct executions, according to an annual report on the death penalty released Wednesday.
President Trump oversaw a full-throttle resumption of federal executions this year after a 17-year pause, carrying out 10 executions even as backing for capital punishment waned. That s a higher yearly total than under any presidency since the 1800s, according to the report by the Death Penalty Information Center.
Donald Trump s administration carries out more executions in 2020 than death penalty states
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For the first time in history, the US Government has carried out more executions in a year than those carried out by states that still conduct executions, according to an annual report on the death penalty released on Wednesday.
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Executions carried out by US states in 2020 dwindled to just seven due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Donald Trump s Government has overseen a full-throttle resumption of federal executions, carrying out 10 this year so far
Report: Federal execution numbers top states for 1st time
by Michael Tarm, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 16, 2020 12:41 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 12:42 am EDT
CHICAGO For the first time in history, the U.S. government has carried out more executions in a year than all states that still conduct executions, according to an annual report on the death penalty released Wednesday.
President Donald Trump oversaw a full-throttle resumption of federal executions this year after a 17-year pause, carrying out 10 executions even as backing for capital punishment waned. That’s a higher yearly total than under any presidency since the 1800s, according to the report by the Death Penalty Information Center.
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Demonstrators protest federal executions of death row inmates, in front of the US Justice Department in Washington, DC, on December 10, 2020. - US federal authorities have scheduled five executions starting on December 10 through January 15, 2021. Four of the five are Black men; the fifth, Lisa Montgomery, would be the first woman to be executed by the federal government in nearly 70 years. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP) (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images
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For the first time in history, the U.S. government has carried out more executions in a year than all states that still conduct executions, according to an annual report on the death penalty released Wednesday.