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Rights Groups Call On UN To Pressure Iran On Drug-Related Executions

More than 80 human rights organizations from Iran and around the world have called on the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to condition its ongoing cooperation with the Islamic republic on a halt in drug-related executions. ....

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Egypt: Politicians and diplomats call for Brotherhood death sentences to be dropped

Egypt: Politicians and diplomats call for Brotherhood death sentences to be dropped
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William Barr, a Catholic, went out of his way to use the death penalty (and defy church teaching)

Attorney General William Barr speaks during a tour of a federal prison in Edgefield, S.C, on July 8, 2019. The Justice Department says it will carry out executions of federal death row inmates for the first time since 2003. The announcement Thursday says five inmates will be executed starting in December. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
(RNS) In July of 2019, five months after securing his second stint as U.S. Attorney General, William Barr instructed the Bureau of Prisons to resume executing prisoners sentenced to death in federal court.
The last previous non-military federal execution had been in 2003, and before then, only two others (in 2001) had taken place in 40 years. Since the resumption began five months ago, the United States government has executed 10 people. Three more executions are scheduled before President Trump leaves office Jan. 20. ....

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Barr the executioner

Barr the executioner
The departing attorney general seemingly went out of his way to reject his church s teaching on the death penalty.
Attorney General William Barr speaks during a tour of a federal prison in Edgefield, South Carolina, on July 8, 2019. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
December 21, 2020
(RNS) In July of 2019, five months after securing his second stint as U.S. Attorney General, William Barr instructed the Bureau of Prisons to resume executing prisoners sentenced to death in federal court.
The last previous non-military federal execution had been in 2003, and before then, only two others (in 2001) had taken place in 40 years. Since the resumption began five months ago, the United States government has executed 10 people. Three more executions are scheduled before President Trump leaves office Jan. 20. ....

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