Attorney General William P. Barr today directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to schedule the executions of four federal death-row inmates who were convicted of murdering children in violation of federal law and who, in two cases, raped the children they murdered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In July 2019, Attorney General Barr directed the BOP to revise the Federal Execution Protocol to provide for the use of a single-drug, pentobarbital \u2014 similar to protocols used in hundreds of state executions and repeatedly upheld by federal courts, including the Supreme Court, as consistent with the Eighth Amendment. A district court\u2019s preliminary injunction prevented BOP from carrying out executions under the revised protocol, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated that injunction \u2014 clearing the way for the federal government to resume capital punishment after a nearly two-decade hiatus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe American people, acting through Congress and Presidents of both political parties, have long instructed that defendants convicted of the most heinous crimes should be subject to a sentence of death,\u201d said Attorney General William P. Barr. \u201cThe four murderers whose executions are scheduled today have received full and fair proceedings under our Constitution and laws. We owe it to the victims of these horrific crimes, and to the families left behind, to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In accordance with 28 C.F.R. Part 26, the BOP has scheduled executions for the following death-sentenced inmates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each of these inmates has exhausted appellate and post-conviction remedies, and no legal impediments prevent their executions, which will take place at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana. Additional executions will be scheduled at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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