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THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES HAVE INCREASINGLY STAKED OUT OPPOSITION TO THE DEATH PENALTY AFTER DECADES OF PARTY STALWARTS SUPPORTING IT TO APPEAR TOUGH ON CRIME. FORMER VICE PRESIDENT JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. REVERSED COURSE WHEN HE UNVEILED A CRIMINAL JUSTICE PLATFORM ON TUESDAY, JOINING NEARLY ALL OF HIS OPPONENTS. HE NOTED THAT 160 PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH SINCE 1973 IN THE UNITED STATES WERE LATER EXONERATED, A STATISTIC THAT HE REPEATED THURSDAY ON TWITTER, ADDING, 「BECAUSE WE CAN』T ENSURE THAT WE GET THESE CASES RIGHT EVERY TIME, WE MUST ELIMINATE THE DEATH PENALTY.」
OF THE FIVE MEN WHOM THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAID IT WANTED TO EXECUTE, MR. BOURGEOIS IS THE ONLY ONE WHO IS BLACK, EVEN THOUGH THE FEDERAL DEATH ROW IS COMPOSED OF A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF BLACK MEN, ADDING TO CRITICISM THAT JURORS DISPROPORTIONATELY FAVOR THE DEATH PENALTY FOR BLACK DEFENDANTS. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS SEEKING TO EXECUTE MR. BOURGEOIS ON JAN. 13.
BOURGEOIS, OF TEXAS, TORTURED, SEXUALLY MOLESTED AND THEN BEAT TO DEATH HIS 2-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER. BOURGEOIS』 EXECUTION IS SCHEDULED TO OCCUR ON JAN. 13, 2020.
U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR HAS DIRECTED THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS TO ADOPT AN ADDENDUM TO FEDERAL EXECUTION PROTOCOL ALLOWING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CARRY OUT THE DEATH PENALTY AFTER A 16-YEAR LAPSE, ACCORDING TO A NEWS RELEASE FROM BARR』S OFFICE.
WHILE THERE HAS NOT BEEN A FEDERAL EXECUTION IN MORE THAN 15 YEARS, FEDERAL ATTORNEYS HAVE CONTINUED TO CARRY OUT DEATH PENALTY PROSECUTIONS.
REINSTATEMENT OF THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY COMES TWO WEEKS AFTER PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT ATTORNEY LARRY KRASNER FILED A BRIEF ASKING THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT TO RULE THE SENTENCE UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT HISTORICALLY TARGETED MEN OF COLOR.
HONKEN"S ACCOMPLICE, ANGELA JOHNSON, WAS CONVICTED IN A SEPARATE TRIAL AND SENTENCED TO DEATH, BECOMING THE FIRST WOMAN ON FEDERAL DEATH ROW IN DECADES. A JUDGE OVERTURNED HER DEATH SENTENCES IN 2012, AND FEDERAL PROSECUTORS DROPPED THEIR PURSUIT OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN 2014, AHEAD OF A RESENTENCING HEARING.
WASHINGTON—DEATH ROW』S POPULATION DECLINED FOR THE 17TH STRAIGHT YEAR IN 2017, WHILE THE DURATION FROM SENTENCE TO EXECUTION INCREASED TO 20 YEARS, THREE MONTHS, THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS REPORTED TUESDAY, CONTINUING AN OVERALL DROP IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ACROSS THE U.S.
“ALL THE COUNTRIES THAT CONTINUE TO IMPOSE THE DEATH PENALTY ON THE POPULATION ARE FLYING IN THE FACE OF WHAT THE U.N. BELIEVES IS THE PRINCIPLED POSITION TO END THIS SORT OF PENALTY ONCE AND FOR ALL,” HAQ TOLD REPORTERS.
"IN THE YEARS SINCE, THERE HAS BEEN AN INFORMAL MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS OF FEDERAL PRISONERS, AS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS REVIEWED ITS LETHAL INJECTION PROCEDURES," THE POST REPORTED. "THAT PRACTICE WAS UNDERSCORED DURING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BY THEN-ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER"S PERSONAL OPPOSITION TO THE DEATH PENALTY, EVEN WHILE HE APPROVED PROSECUTORS" DECISIONS TO SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY IN SPECIFIC TRIAL."
DANIEL LEWIS LEE, CONVICTED IN THE 1996 DEATHS OF A GUN DEALER AND HIS FAMILY IN ARKANSAS; LEZMOND MITCHELL, CONVICTED IN THE 2001 DEATHS OF A GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDDAUGHTER IN ARIZONA; WESLEY IRA PURKEY, CONVICTED IN THE 1998 DEATH OF A TEENAGER IN MISSOURI; ALFRED BOURGEOIS, CONVICTED IN THE 2002 DEATH OF HIS TODDLER-AGED DAUGHTER IN TEXAS; AND DUSTIN LEE HONKEN, CONVICTED IN THE 1993 DEATHS OF FIVE PEOPLE IN IOWA, ARE ALL SET TO BE EXECUTED.
THE LAST FEDERAL EXECUTION IN THE UNITED STATES TOOK PLACE IN 2003 WHEN GULF WAR VETERAN LOUIS JONES JR. WAS PUT TO DEATH FOR THE KIDNAPPING AND MURDER OF A 19-YEAR-OLD SOLDIER. THERE ARE CURRENTLY 65 INMATES ON FEDERAL DEATH ROW, ACCORDING TO THE DEATH PENALTY INFORMATION CENTER. MORE THAN HALF OF U.S. STATES HAVE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT LAWS, WITH MANY CONDUCTING EXECUTIONS ON A STATE LEVEL.
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS DECIDED TO RESUME THE DEATH PENALTY FOR INMATES ON DEATH ROW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES. NBC'S PETE WILLIAMS HAS DETAILS ON THE DECISION.
「LET ME BE CLEAR: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS IMMORAL AND DEEPLY FLAWED,」 SEN. KAMALA D. HARRIS (D-CALIF.), A FORMER CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL, SAID ON TWITTER. 「TOO MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PUT TO DEATH. WE NEED A NATIONAL MORATORIUM ON THE DEATH PENALTY, NOT A RESURRECTION.」
THE GOVERNMENT HAS PUT TO DEATH ONLY THREE DEFENDANTS SINCE RESTORING THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY IN 1988, THE MOST RECENT OF WHICH OCCURRED IN 2003 WHEN LOUIS JONES WAS EXECUTED FOR THE 1995 KIDNAPPING, RAPE AND MURDER OF A YOUNG FEMALE SOLDIER.

 

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