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Since June 28, 2004 January 16, 2021 SCOTUS clear way for 13th federal execution in six months, prompting extended dissents from Justices Breyer and Sotomayor The now familiar federal execution drama has now played out one more time, this time around with Dustin Higgs securing a stay in lower courts only to see the Supreme Court allowing the execution to go forward.  Notably, with this last scheduled federal execution, Justice Beyer and Justice Sotomayor each sought to say their piece in exten...

Tallying the Trump DOJs final body count Hannah Riley © Provided by NBC News Last year was, in so many ways, a deadly one. After a nearly two-decade hiatus, the machinery of the federal death penalty groaned back to life in July. As the Covid-19 pandemic hit its summer peak, overwhelming hospitals and killing hundreds every day, the federal government executed Daniel Lewis Lee. Then Wesley Purkey. Then Dustin Honken. Lezmond Mitchell. Keith Nelson. William LeCroy. Christopher ...

Trump Admin Spent Millions Carrying Out Federal Executions In A Pandemic On 1/14/21 at 7:20 AM EST At a time when many Americans were desperate for financial relief, the U.S. government spent millions of taxpayer dollars putting federal inmates to death amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Trump administration resumed federal executions last summer, despite criticism over the risks posed by the pandemic. 11 inmates have been put to death since federal execution resumed. Five of them were executed...

WERE NEAR THE TOP IN DUST, POTHOLES AND BOOGER SUGAR A survey by the Online Betting Guide ranked Tucson the 10th wildest city in the U.S. Using factors like nightlife, casinos, strip clubs and alcohol and drug consumption, Las Vegas finished first. Tucson was fourth in casinos and 13th in the percentage whove taken marijuana. But the Old Pueblo roared back when it came to cocaine use, finishing fifth. CAT FROM HELL A North Carolina animal shelter waived adoption fees hoping someone would take P...

Inside Donald Trump and Barr’s Last-Minute Killing Spree The outgoing Trump administration is using its final days to execute the most federal prisoners since World War II. US President Donald Trump and US Attorney General William Barr attend the 38th Annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, May 15, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Carlos Barria World28/Dec/2020 In its hurry to use its final days in power to execute federal prisoners, the administration of Pre...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In its hurry to use its final days in power to execute federal prisoners, the administration of President Donald Trump has trampled over an array of barriers, both legal and practical, according to court records that have not been previously reported. Officials gave public explanations for their choice of which prisoners should die that misstated key facts...

Five face execution in Trumps last six weeks Four men and one woman convicted under USA federal law face execution in the last six weeks of the Trump presidency. The USA federal authorities resumed executions after 17 years and have been pursuing an unprecedented number of lethal injections, bucking national and global trends towards abolition. The cases of those selected for execution have been affected by arbitrariness, ineffective legal representation, racial bias, and have involved people ...

Federal Death Row Executions Raise Red Flags For Advocates By Emily Lever | December 20, 2020, 8:02 PM EST On Dec. 10, Brandon Bernard was executed by the federal government for a crime committed in 1999, over the objections of jurors who sentenced him to die, the prosecutor who defended his conviction on appeal, and a host of public figures and private citizens. On Jan. 14, Corey Johnson is set to be executed over objections that he has an intellectual disability that makes hi...

Sara Weinberger: Shining a light on the federal government’s killing spree   Published: 12/21/2020 12:52:32 PM In June, Attorney General William Barr ordered the resumption of federal executions. Like a kid let loose in a candy store, Barr wasted no time. On July 14, Daniel Lee Lewis, according to his lawyer, spent the last four hours of his life strapped to a gurney, waiting for the Supreme Court to decide his fate. On July 13, a federal judge had delayed his execution on the grounds that ...

Brandon Bernard, 40, Executed for 1999 Double-Murder: Wish I Could Take It All Back People 12/11/2020 © USP Terre Haute Brandon Bernard On Thursday, the 40-year-old was put to death at the Federal Correctional Center in Terre Haute, Indiana. Bernard was convicted of two counts of murder, among other crimes, for his involvement in the 1999 double murder of youth ministers Todd and Stacie Bagley during a carjacking and robbery, in which Bernard, 18 at the time, was one of three participants ...