Trump administration’s plans to resume federal executions return to court

January 15, 2020 Comments Off on Trump administration’s plans to resume federal executions return to court

In this Oct. 13, 1999 file photo, Ricky Bell, then warden at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn., gives a tour of the prison’s execution chamber. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill into law last week, allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event prisons are unable to obtain lethal injection drugs, which have become more and more scarce following a European-led boycott of drug sales for executions. AP Images

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s push to restart federal executions after nearly two decades heads back to court Wednesday morning in Washington. Justice Department lawyers are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to reverse ...

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Last-minute execution decisions expose wide and bitter rift at Supreme Court

May 14, 2019 Comments Off on Last-minute execution decisions expose wide and bitter rift at Supreme Court

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court meets in private to decide last-minute pleas from death-row inmates to stop their executions, and what happens behind the maroon velvet curtains often stays behind the maroon velvet curtains. But that changed Monday, with justices ...

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Trump administration’s plans to resume federal executions return to court

Last-minute execution decisions expose wide and bitter rift at Supreme Court