‘This horror has to stop.’ Spiritual advisers to death row inmates decry recent wave of federal executions
4 years ago

‘This horror has to stop.’ Spiritual advisers to death row inmates decry recent wave of federal executions

CNN  

CNN — It wasn’t until Yusuf Nur was inside the execution chamber, standing next to a condemned man strapped to a gurney, that he understood why he’d been asked to be present. “At the beginning, it was not clear to me that being a spiritual counselor would entail being there in the death chamber,” Nur told CNN, “and be there only a few feet from the gurney where they execute the person.” “But the day of the execution, standing there right beside his gurney where he’s lying, in that death chamber, that’s when I realized why he needed me there,” Nur said. Even with the inmate’s family in an adjoining witness room, “I was the only person he knew there.” Between July 2020 and January 2021, 13 federal death row inmates were executed by the US government in the final months of the Trump administration – the first federal executions since 2003, when an informal moratorium halted the death penalty for 17 years. “It was like, we have to make sure people know this is happening.” Battista said protesters had tried to honor pain on all sides of the executions, including the families of the inmates’ victims. “That’s when my belief against the death penalty became real.” Following Johnson’s death, Breeden said he turned to the execution team and told them, “I would be remiss in my role as a minister if I did not advise you to find another line of employment before you lose your souls.” Outside, Breeden spoke to reporters and the group of protesters who’d held vigil nearby.

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Donald Trump vows to bring back the death Penalty after Joe Biden’s move to commute 37 death sentences
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Donald Trump vows to bring back the death Penalty after Joe Biden’s move to commute 37 death sentences

Live Mint  

Incoming US President Donald Trump has sharply criticized President Joe Biden’s recent decision to commute the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, calling it “unbelievable” and “devastating” for the victims' families. Trump’s vow to restore and expand the death penalty stands in stark contrast to Biden’s ongoing push for criminal justice reform and a moratorium on federal executions. Biden …

Trump Vows To Pursue Executions After Biden Commutes Most Of Federal Death Row
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump Vows To Pursue Executions After Biden Commutes Most Of Federal Death Row

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions. The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am …

Trump vows to pursue executions after Biden commutes most of federal death row
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Trump vows to pursue executions after Biden commutes most of federal death row

Deccan Chronicle  

President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions.Trump criticized Biden’s decision on Monday to change the sentences of 37 of the 40 condemned people to life in prison without parole, arguing that it was …

Trump vows to pursue executions after Biden commutes most of federal death row
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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump vows to pursue executions after Biden commutes most of federal death row

The Hindu  

President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Mr. Trump from pushing forward their executions. The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was vague on what …

Donald Trump says he will direct Justice Department to ‘pursue death penalty’, slams Biden's move
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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Donald Trump says he will direct Justice Department to ‘pursue death penalty’, slams Biden's move

Hindustan Times  

President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions. The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was vague on what specific …

Trump vows capital punishment for 'rapists, murderers' after Biden commutes most of federal death row
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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump vows capital punishment for 'rapists, murderers' after Biden commutes most of federal death row

India TV News  

US President-elect Donald Trump once again made a big announcement by promising to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment. Trump's promise comes days after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop his successor from pushing forward their executions. Trump to take up cases of violent rapists, murderers, and monsters The President-elect wrote that …

Trump vows to pursue executions after Biden commutes most of federal death row
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Trump vows to pursue executions after Biden commutes most of federal death row

Associated Press  

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions. The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was …

The three federal death row inmates Biden chose not to save
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The three federal death row inmates Biden chose not to save

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Joe Biden made history on Monday and commuted the sentence …

Trump vows to pursue executions after Biden commutes most of federal death row
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Trump vows to pursue executions after Biden commutes most of federal death row

LA Times  

President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions. The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was vague on what specific actions …

Biden commutes sentences for 37 of 40 federal death row inmates ahead of Trump’s return
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden commutes sentences for 37 of 40 federal death row inmates ahead of Trump’s return

Firstpost  

With less than a month left in office, Biden had faced growing calls from death penalty opponents to commute the sentences of those on death row to life in prison without parole, which the 37 will now serve US President Joe Biden speaks at the White House, in Washington, December 8, 2024. With less than a month left in office, …

Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates
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Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates

Deccan Chronicle  

Washington: President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office. While running for president in 2020, Biden's campaign website said he would work to pass legislation …

Biden commutes sentences for 37 of 40 federal death row inmates
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Biden commutes sentences for 37 of 40 federal death row inmates

New Indian Express  

US President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences of 37 of 40 federal inmates, taking action ahead of the return of Donald Trump who oversaw a sweeping number of lethal injections during his first term. With less than a month left in office, Biden had faced growing calls from death penalty opponents to commute the sentences of those …

Joe Biden commutes 37 of 40 federal death sentences before Trump takes office
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Joe Biden commutes 37 of 40 federal death sentences before Trump takes office

India Today  

US President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole before he hands over power to President-elect Donald Trump on January 20. Biden, who ran for president opposing the death penalty, put federal executions on hold when he took office in January 2021. …

Biden could foil Trump’s plans to resume federal executions
3 months ago

Biden could foil Trump’s plans to resume federal executions

Politico  

Meanwhile, the Justice Department is also on the verge of publishing the findings of a long-running internal review of the lethal injection protocol that the Trump administration adopted in 2019. “We hope the review will find that the problems with lethal injection are one additional reason as to why President Biden should grant clemency to death row prisoners,” said Ruth …

US carries out 25 executions this year as death penalty trends in nation held steady
3 months ago

US carries out 25 executions this year as death penalty trends in nation held steady

Associated Press  

HOUSTON — The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of states, including Alabama, which became the first state to use nitrogen gas as an execution method, according to an annual report on capital punishment. “The dramatic drop in new death sentences over the years, I …

Biden Could Block Another Trump Execution Spree
3 months, 1 week ago

Biden Could Block Another Trump Execution Spree

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING During his final six months as president, Donald Trump’s administration carried out an unprecedented execution spree, killing 13 people. With the stroke of a pen, Biden could commute every federal death sentence to life in prison and block the incoming Trump administration from carrying out its stated mass killing agenda. At the same time, Justice Department lawyers …

'Should not proceed': Dozens of former judges ask Biden for major act before his term ends
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'Should not proceed': Dozens of former judges ask Biden for major act before his term ends

Raw Story  

At the end of every presidency, the leader drops pardons and commutations, but former federal judges are begging President Joe Biden to make a strong statement by moving death row inmates scheduled for execution to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Legal reporter Chris Geidner posted the letter to Biden is signed by 24 former federal judges, as …

Everyone from Richard Branson to the Pope wants Biden to ‘Trump-proof’ death row
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Everyone from Richard Branson to the Pope wants Biden to ‘Trump-proof’ death row

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Biden was already facing calls last from opponents of capital punishment to commute the …

Anti-death penalty activists say Biden betrayed them
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Anti-death penalty activists say Biden betrayed them

The Independent  

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Before it is too late Biden must turn words into deeds on the death penalty
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Before it is too late Biden must turn words into deeds on the death penalty

Salon  

In the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election, opponents of the death penalty are mounting a campaign to convince President Biden to commute the sentences of everyone on federal death row. José Gomez, Archbishop of Los Angeles and president of the conference warned that “Our new President has pledged to pursue certain policies that would advance moral evils and threaten …

Trump Second Term 'Mortifies' Family Members Of The Executed
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Trump Second Term 'Mortifies' Family Members Of The Executed

Huff Post  

During the final six months of Donald Trump's presidency, his administration rushed to execute 13 people, ending a 17-year de facto moratorium on federal executions. When they’re showing signs of asphyxiation,” said Vialva’s mother, Lisa Brown, noting evidence that the lethal injection drugs can cause the lungs to fill with fluid, creating the sensation of suffocating or drowning to death. …

The Next Stage in the Effort to End the Death Penalty
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The Next Stage in the Effort to End the Death Penalty

Slate  

The death penalty in the United States is not really a legal problem. This is another example of what French writer Alexis de Tocqueville observed of the United States when he visited in the early 19th century: “Scarcely any political question arises … that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.” Although courts have on occasion stepped …

11 Questions We Desperately Want The Candidates To Answer At The First Presidential Debate
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11 Questions We Desperately Want The Candidates To Answer At The First Presidential Debate

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. – Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent Criminal Justice During the final six months of President Trump’s term, his administration executed 13 people, ending a 17-year de facto moratorium on federal executions. – Jonathan Nicholson, Politics Reporter President Trump, you recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel without acknowledging …

Red states are using the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade to expand the death penalty
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Red states are using the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade to expand the death penalty

Salon  

Even as support for the death penalty wanes across the country, Republican governors, led by Florida’s Ron DeSantis, are signing into law legislation expanding the death penalty. Before looking more closely at the Tennessee law and the political strategy behind it and the others, let’s recall what the Supreme Court has said about using the death penalty for non-homicide cases …

The GOP Plan For Executions If Trump Wins
10 months, 1 week ago

The GOP Plan For Executions If Trump Wins

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING During the final six months of Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration carried out an unprecedented execution spree, killing 13 people on federal death row and ending a 17-year de facto federal execution moratorium. “To expand the death penalty would just be a sea change that would affect decades of jurisprudence, and I don’t think there are enough …

Biden backed off a pledge to abolish the federal death penalty. That’s left an opening for Trump
1 year ago

Biden backed off a pledge to abolish the federal death penalty. That’s left an opening for Trump

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. WASHINGTON — As he prepared to take office three years ago, Joe Biden’s incoming administration considered a host of possible options to fulfill a campaign pledge to end the federal death penalty. Biden’s 2020 position was a change of heart from when he Abraham Bonowitz, director of Death Penalty Action, …

Louisiana advances a bill expanding death penalty methods in an effort to resume executions
1 year ago

Louisiana advances a bill expanding death penalty methods in an effort to resume executions

Associated Press  

— In an effort to resume Louisiana’s death row executions that have been paused for 14 years, lawmakers on Friday advanced a bill that would add the use of nitrogen gas and electrocution as possible methods to carry out capital punishment. Over the past couple of decades, executions in the United States have reduced — in part because of legal …

Fuller picture emerges of the 13 federal executions at the end of Trump’s presidency
1 year, 5 months ago

Fuller picture emerges of the 13 federal executions at the end of Trump’s presidency

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — A day before the federal government executed a Texas man for the killing of an Iowa couple when he was 18, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz pleaded with then-President Donald Trump — a former client — to call the execution off. The relatives, Trump explained, were on the road to the prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where federal executions …

Fuller picture emerges of the 13 federal executions at the end of Trump's presidency
1 year, 5 months ago

Fuller picture emerges of the 13 federal executions at the end of Trump's presidency

The Independent  

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Biden’s inaction on death penalty may be a top campaign issue as Trump and DeSantis laud executions
1 year, 7 months ago

Biden’s inaction on death penalty may be a top campaign issue as Trump and DeSantis laud executions

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Capital punishment could emerge as a major campaign issue in the U.S. presidential race for the first time in 30 years, with top GOP rivals Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis already one-upping each other by touting tougher, more far-reaching death penalty laws. Meanwhile, death penalty foes are poised to draw attention to what Democrat Joe Biden hasn’t done …

Biden's inaction on death penalty may be a top campaign issue as Trump and DeSantis laud executions
1 year, 7 months ago

Biden's inaction on death penalty may be a top campaign issue as Trump and DeSantis laud executions

The Independent  

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Joe Biden is breaking his promise to end the federal death penalty
1 year, 7 months ago

Joe Biden is breaking his promise to end the federal death penalty

The Independent  

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How DOJ made different death penalty decisions in the Pittsburgh synagogue and Texas mall massacres
1 year, 8 months ago

How DOJ made different death penalty decisions in the Pittsburgh synagogue and Texas mall massacres

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Two separate shootings 2,000 miles apart. Justice Department spokesman Scottie Howell said Foster’s claim and other allegations about the section are false, adding that department staff “make all decisions based on the facts and the law and hold themselves to the highest standards.” MENTAL HEALTH, OTHER FACTORS IN DEPARTMENT DECISIONS An Associated Press review of court filings and …

Joe Biden Criticized For Inaction On Death Penalty
1 year, 8 months ago

Joe Biden Criticized For Inaction On Death Penalty

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Joe Biden made history in 2021 when he became the first president to publicly oppose the death penalty. Death penalty abolitionists told HuffPost during the early days of Biden’s presidency they hoped he would use his clemency power to commute the sentences of everyone on federal death row as a failsafe against Congressional inaction. In July …

Trump wants the death penalty for drug dealers. Here's why that probably won't happen
1 year, 10 months ago

Trump wants the death penalty for drug dealers. Here's why that probably won't happen

NPR  

Trump wants the death penalty for drug dealers. Sponsor Message However, Trump does have a plan for addressing America's drug problems, even if he didn't discuss it Wednesday night: institute the death penalty for drug traffickers, smugglers and dealers. if we don't get tough on drug dealers, we're wasting our time, just remember that, we're wasting our time, and that …

Ohio senators introduce bipartisan bill to end death penalty
1 year, 11 months ago

Ohio senators introduce bipartisan bill to end death penalty

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The death penalty could be abolished in Ohio under upcoming bipartisan legislation announced Tuesday — the latest in what has been years of effort to end capital punishment in the state. State senators from both sides of the aisle called for an end to the practice, citing the financial blow to taxpayers to keep an inmate on …

What’s the status of the US death penalty?
2 years ago

What’s the status of the US death penalty?

Associated Press  

The first federal capital case tried under President Joe Biden ended with a split among jurors that means the life of an Islamic extremist who killed eight people in a New York City will be spared. The initial decision to seek the death penalty came under then-President Donald Trump, who tweeted a day after the attack that Saipov “SHOULD GET …

EXPLAINER: What's the status of the US death penalty?
2 years ago

EXPLAINER: What's the status of the US death penalty?

The Independent  

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EXPLAINER: Biden inaction, mixed signals on death penalty
2 years, 2 months ago

EXPLAINER: Biden inaction, mixed signals on death penalty

Associated Press  

In Boston, the Justice Department is pressing judges to uphold Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence. The Justice Department continues to press for the death penalty in certain cases, even though it has imposed a moratorium that means no federal executions are likely to happen anytime soon. But they will be Biden executions.” A White House email on Wednesday said …

What does Joe Biden's silence on the death penalty mean?
2 years, 2 months ago

What does Joe Biden's silence on the death penalty mean?

Firstpost  

US president Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to work toward abolishing federal capital punishment. But the Justice Department continues to press for the death penalty in certain cases — even as a moratorium means no federal executions are likely to happen anytime soon In Boston, the Justice Department is pressing judges to uphold Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence. …

US won’t seek death penalty for alleged Texas Walmart gunman
2 years, 2 months ago

US won’t seek death penalty for alleged Texas Walmart gunman

Associated Press  

Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a West Texas Walmart in 2019. Federal prosecutors did not explain in their court filing the reason for their decision, though Crusius still could face the death penalty if convicted in state court. The prosecutors’ decision …

US won't seek death penalty for alleged Texas Walmart gunman
2 years, 2 months ago

US won't seek death penalty for alleged Texas Walmart gunman

India Today  

Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a West Texas Walmart in 2019. Federal prosecutors did not explain in their court filing the reason for their decision, though Crusius still could face the death penalty if convicted in state court. The prosecutors’ decision …

The Vindication of Stephen Breyer
2 years, 8 months ago

The Vindication of Stephen Breyer

Slate  

On June 30, Justice Stephen Breyer retired from the Supreme Court after nearly 28 years. “Innocent People Have Been Executed” One of Breyer’s main objections to the death penalty stemmed from the fact that new evidence had shown states had executed innocent people, rendering the death penalty unreliable. In part three of his dissent, Breyer spelled out how the lengthy …

Joe Biden says he’s changed his mind on the death penalty. Why isn’t he doing more to stop it?
3 years, 4 months ago

Joe Biden says he’s changed his mind on the death penalty. Why isn’t he doing more to stop it?

The Independent  

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Op-Ed: Biden’s death penalty hypocrisy
3 years, 5 months ago

Op-Ed: Biden’s death penalty hypocrisy

LA Times  

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death for the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013 that killed three people and injured more than 260. The Biden administration is hypocritical in simultaneously imposing a moratorium on the federal death penalty and urging that the Supreme Court reinstate the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Indeed, the Biden administration’s choice to …

US attorney general freezes all federal executions
3 years, 8 months ago

US attorney general freezes all federal executions

Al Jazeera  

President Joe Biden, a Democrat, pledged during his campaign to support legislation to end the death penalty. US Attorney General Merrick Garland has ordered a moratorium on federal executions while the Justice Department continues its review of the death penalty, the department said in a statement. “The Department of Justice must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice system …

Biden's silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden's silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray

The Independent  

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Biden’s silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden’s silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — Activists widely expected Joe Biden to take swift action against the death penalty as the first sitting president to oppose capital punishment, especially since an unprecedented spate of executions by his predecessor ended just days before Biden took office. Support for the death penalty among Americans is at near-historic lows after peaking in the mid-1990s and steadily declining …

Why Virginia’s abolition of the death penalty is a big deal
3 years, 11 months ago

Why Virginia’s abolition of the death penalty is a big deal

CNN  

CNN — In 1608, Jamestown colonists executed a man named Capt. “No state that has used the death penalty that long and that often has ever before abolished capital punishment,” Dunham told CNN. Northam pointed to this fact at the bill’s signing last Wednesday, calling the death penalty “fundamentally flawed.” “Capital punishment is a direct descendant of slavery, lynching and …

Virginia, with 2nd-most executions, outlaws death penalty
3 years, 11 months ago

Virginia, with 2nd-most executions, outlaws death penalty

Associated Press  

JARRATT, Va. — The governor signed legislation Wednesday making Virginia the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty, a dramatic shift for the commonwealth, which had the second-highest number of executions in the U.S. Northam said the death penalty has been disproportionately applied to Black people and is the product of a flawed judicial system that doesn’t always get it …

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