Attorney General Barr directs the US government to resume capital punishment after nearly 20 years and orders the execution of five death row inmates
After 16 years without an execution, Barr has directed the head of the Bureau of Prisons to execute"five death-row inmates convicted of murdering, and in some cases torturing and raping, the most vulnerable in our society — children and the elderly" in December and January, according to a statement from the Department of Justice.
Read More"Saying that you are going to adopt a protocol is not the same thing as having a protocol properly adopted through the required administrative procedures," said Robert Dunham, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a group that has been critical of how the penalty is administered."You can't just say it and have it happen. There is a legal process for a protocol to go into effect and there is a legal process for challenging the protocol.
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