Reflections on the Federal Death Penalty and its Precursors
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Daniel Lewis Lee, Lisa Montgomery: Federal executions under Trump
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Providence Sr. Barbara Battista, holds a photo taken during her last visit with Keith Dwayne Nelson, who was executed at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, Aug. 28, 2020. Battista was Nelson s spiritual adviser and was present as he was executed. (AP/Michael Conroy)
Sr. Barbara Battista wasn t in prison ministry and didn t visit the men incarcerated at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, like other Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods.
But she was outspoken, and that s what Keith Dwayne Nelson wanted.
It was July 2020, and Nelson was scheduled to be the fifth person executed in a spree of 13 carried out by President Donald Trump and his attorney general, William Barr, between July 14, 2020, and Jan. 16, 2021.
Squad members Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush urge Biden to commute the sentence of EVERY death row inmate as they rip Trump s cruel execution spree
A group of 35 Democrats led by Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush is urging President Biden to commute the sentence of death row inmates
They wrote a letter to Biden on Friday in which they asked him to take all 49 federal inmates off death row You can ensure that there would be no one left on death row to kill, it said
In the three-page letter, the group also blasted Trump s execution spree
His administration lifted a moratorium on federal executions and 13 people were put to death while he was in office