US To Resume Federal Executions After 17 Years
June 16, 2020
3:35 pm
The United States will resume federal executions on July 13, after a 17-year stay, the Justice Department said Monday.
There have been just three federal execution since the death penalty was reinstated by the US government in 1988.
Attorney General Bill Barr announced a year ago he intended to resume the use of the death penalty for federal crimes. Five convicted murderers were scheduled to undergo lethal injections in December 2019 and January of this year at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.
But at the last minute, the US Supreme Court refused to lift a stay on federal …
