Federal Execution Team Members Are Getting COVID. Secrecy Has Thwarted Contact Tracing.
| Updated January 5, 2021 The Trump administration has executed 10 people since mid-July — the most federal executions carried out in a year since 1896. The Trump Justice Department is so intent on keeping secret the identities of those involved in the process that they hired private executioners and paid them in cash, Propublica reported last week. But that secrecy is also making it harder to contain the spread of the coronavirus. For months, the government has ignored clear signs that the executions are fueling COVID-19 outbreaks. And now, when members of the federal execution teams ha...
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