The Justice Department, under Attorney General Bill Barr, has killed 10 federal inmates since July
They plan to execute three more before Joe Biden s inauguration next month
Court documents obtained by ProPublica reveal how the Trump administration is rushing to execute the most federal prisoners since World War II
Among details included in court records are that private executioners have been paid in cash and drugs have been purchased from a secret pharmacy
One execution has gone ahead while an appeal was still pending and an inmate was left strapped to a gurney while lawyers tried to remove a court order
Ramesh Ponnuru: Wrong way to fight death penalty
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Flaws in the uproar against death penalty
22 Dec 2020
Tribune News Service
Under the leadership of President Donald Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr, the federal government has executed nine prisoners since July and is set to execute four more before the change of administrations on Jan. 20. Opponents of the death penalty are appalled at the pace, with the editors of the Washington Post writing that the Justice Department “has gone on a sickening spree of executions.”
NBC and Slate are also calling it a “spree”; other news outlets are calling it a “rush.” Cori Bush, an incoming Democratic member of Congress, calls it “state-sanctioned murder.”
The wrong way to fight the death penalty
By Ramesh Ponnuru
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