Commentary: Executions don’t deter murder, despite the Trump administration’s push By David P. Barash, University of WashingtonThe Conversation Share Three more federal inmates are slated to be executed before the end of President Donald Trump’s term, though the first received a stay hours before she was slated to die on Jan. 12. Ten have already been put to death since the Trump administration announced in July 2019 that it would resume executions after a 17-year suspension. It’s not clear why the administration has done so many in such a short time after a long break. Officially it...