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December 7, 2020
Might federal execution plans be impacted if Attorney General William Barr were to step down in coming days?
The question in the title of this post is prompted by these two new press pieces:
From the
Here are extended excerpts from the lengthy and effective AP piece (with a few items emphasized):
As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons, announcing plans for five starting Thursday and concluding just days before the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
If the five go off as planned, it will make 13 executions since July when the Republican administration resumed putting inmates to death after a 17-year hiatus and will cement Trump’s legacy as the most prolific execution president in over 130 years. He’ll leave office having executed about a quarter of all federal death-row prisoners, despite waning suppo