The US Supreme Court turns away a major challenge to the government's lethal injection protocol, a win for the Trump administration that has set execution dates to begin mid-July after a nearly two-decade lapse
In 2019 Attorney General William Barr's moved to reinstate the federal death penalty, underscoring the stark law-and-order philosophy of the Trump administration. At the time, he directed the head of the Bureau of Prisons to execute five inmates he said represented the"worst criminals."The Bureau of Prisons adopted a new lethal injection protocol consisting of a single drug, pentobarbital.
"Today's ruling removes a major obstacle to the resumption of federal executions, but not the only one."A district judge blocked the executions from going forward, holding that the protocol conflicts with the Federal Death Penalty Act, which requires adherence to a state's method of execution.
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