the UNITED states are scheduled to resume federal executions 13. July.
It happens after a pause of 17 years, informs the u.s. department of justice.
Since 1988, only three people have been executed by the federal authorities, the latest in 2003.
However, between the 13. July 28. august four federal executions take place, according to the ministry of justice.
Already, a year ago, announced attorney general William Barr, to the federal executions resumed.
Five convicted killers were put to get the lethal injections in december 2019 and January 2020.
But at the last moment rejected the UNITED states supreme court to revoke the stop of executions.
the Explanation was that ‘in the light of what is at stake’, should an appeals court decide the executions.
In april, an appeals court in Washington, the use of the drug pentobarbital for executions.
Then announced Barr, that there should be new henrettelsesdatoer for four of the five convicted.
– we owe It to the victims of these terrible crimes, he said in a message.
Among the four sentenced to death, Daniel Lewis Lee, who in 1996 was convicted of killing a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl.
the Mother of one of those killed, Earlene Peterson, are against Lee’s execution because of his religious beliefs and has invited Donald Trump to pardon him.
– I can’t see how the execution of Daniel Lee will honor my daughter in any way, Peterson said in a video that’s been put on the web.
– Actually, it is a bit, as it throws dirt on her name, because it’s not, as she would have liked, and I will not have it.
Trump has been a strong supporter of the death penalty and has spoken for the death sentences to drug dealers.
According to opinion polls is support for the death penalty dropped from a level of around 80 percent in the early 1990’s to about 54 percent today.
Only a handful of states – mainly in the southern UNITED states – executes still doomed. 22, was executed in 2019.
The majority of criminal cases in the UNITED states are treated by the länder.