The federal government will resume capital punishment, the Justice Department announces, adding that the decision was made in relation to 'five death-row inmates convicted of murdering, and in some cases torturing and raping' children and the elderly
Attorney General Bill Barr announced Thursday the federal government will be resuming capital punishment.
"The Justice Department upholds the rule of law -- and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system," Barr said in the announcement. Alfred Bourgeois is now scheduled for a Jan. 13, 2020, execution after his 2004 sentencing for the torture, sexual molestation and murder of his toddler daughter. The last newly scheduled execution is for Dustin Lee Honken, who shot and killed five people, including a single mother and her 10- and 6-year-old daughters, and was sentenced in 2004.
"The Trump administration’s decision to restart federal executions after a 16-year hiatus is outrageous. It is the latest indication of this administration’s disdain for human rights," Amnesty International USA executive director Margaret Huang said in a statement.According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 78 federal defendants have been sentenced to death between 1988 and 2018. Only three have been executed and 12 were removed from death row.
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