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Updated 12 hours ago Attorney General Merrick Garland Orders Moratorium On Federal Executions The Justice Department will review its policies and procedures related to capital cases during this pause. Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered a moratorium on federal executions on Thursday ―  citing “serious concerns” about the continued use of the death penalty in the U.S., including the “arbitrariness in its application, disparate impact on people of color, and the troubling number of exonerations in capital and other serious cases.” “Those weighty concerns deserve careful study ...

"Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Imposes a Moratorium on Federal Executions; Orders Review of Policies and Procedures" The title of this post is the heading of this notable new US Justice Department press release.  Here is the main text of the press release: Today, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland issued a memorandum imposing a moratorium on federal executions while a review of the Justice Department’s policies and procedures is pending. “The Department of Justice must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice system is not only afforded the rights guaranteed by the Con...

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Sentencing Law and Policy Federal Sentencing Reporter issue considers "After Trump: The Future of the President’s Pardon Power" It strikes me as a great bit of great timing, as we head into a weekend celebrating our great nation's declaration of independence from a monarchy, that the new issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter focused on the pardon power in the US Constitution is just now available online.  It is often said that the presidential pardon authority in Article II section 2 of the Constitution is the most "kingly" power given to our chief executive, and former Prez Donald Tru...

Joe Biden, Who Vowed to Abolish Executions, Urged to Commute Death Row Sentences On 3/4/21 at 6:36 AM EST As President Joe Biden approaches the mid-way point of his first 100 days in office, activists and civil rights groups are continuing to call on him to take action on ending the federal death penalty. Several were carried out during former president Donald Trump's lame duck months and the final three executions took place just days before Biden's inauguration. On a campaign website, Biden—a death penalty opponent—pledged that, as president, he would "work to pass legislation to elimin...