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They Are Mentally Ill; Some States Want Them Off Death Row

Death rows across the country are filled with people suffering from severe forms of mental illness. Taking action in an area where the U.S. Supreme Court has not ventured, some states are now enacting or considering laws that would exclude those prisoners from capital punishment.

Merrick Garland says he has 'great' concern about federal use of the death penalty, which surged under Trump

Merrick Garland expects return to death penalty moratorium

Merrick Garland says he has great concern about federal use of the death penalty, which surged under Trump Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT WASHINGTON - Merrick Garland told a Senate committee weighing his confirmation as attorney general that he expected that a new moratorium would be declared on federal executions. Garland said he harbored “great” concern about the application of the death penalty by the federal government, which dramatically resumed executions during the Trump administration. © Wyandotte County Sheriff s Department Lisa Montgomery, 52, was executed by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021.

Merrick Garland expects return to death penalty moratorium

Trump abused the death penalty. Biden must abolish it

Trump expedited a few executions, knowing that Biden opposes the death penalty. Biden can make sure that doesn t happening again by abolishing the practice. Ashish Prashar is Sr. Director of Global Communications at Publicis Sapient and a justice reform activist. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. The death penalty serves as symbol of the inhumanity of the US criminal justice system, where people who are incarcerated are treated as second-class citizens or simply expendable.  Since the start of 2020, the federal executions of Lisa M. Montgomery, Cory Johnson, and Dustin John Higgs have taken place. These executions were not justice, they are murder at the hands of the government.