America's Shadow Death Row: Drone Strikes
The Atlantic America’s Shadow Death Row The government does not exclusively kill people who are on death row. It condemns many to die by drone strike. January 22, 2021 Christopher Griffin / Handout / Reuters Last week, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor published a dissent in a death-penalty case that flagged the striking number of killings taking place in the last months of the Trump administration. “After seventeen years without a single federal execution, the Government has executed twelve people since July,” she wrote, calling it “an unprecedented, breakneck timetable of execut...