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Sentencing Law and Policy: Campaign 2020 and sentencing issues
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Sentencing Law and Policy: Criminal justice in the Trump Administration
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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
Reviewing CJUTF Recommendations: how might the Biden Administration seek to abolish the death penalty?
Right after the election, I blogged a bit (here and here) about some criminal justice reform recommendations from the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force (available here pp. 56-62, called the CJUTF hereinafter). A few weeks ago, as explained here, I decided to start a series of posts to spotlight and amplify some recommendations from the CJUTF that ought to be of particular interest to sentencing fans. In the wake of two more notable federal executions last week (noted here and here), this post will focus on a recommendation that speaks of abolition, and here it is: