'The death penalty is archaic, barbaric, and cold-hearted; it destroys families and communities, and its abolition is long overdue,' argues repcorias dozens of congressional Democrats urge the DOJ to continue its moratorium on federal executions.
to U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland spearheaded by Pressley and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbn , 26 Democratic members of Congress urged the Biden administration to rescind a series of Trump-era amendments that expanded execution methods, allowed the Justice Department to skip important regulatory steps while pursuing federal executions, and made state prisons and personnel available for federal executions, among other changes.
The 2020 amendments"were adopted in the middle of an alarming rush of executions by the previous administration," the letter states."Ending a 17-year moratorium on the federal death penalty, the prior administration executed 12 men and one woman in the space of six months—exceeding the number of individuals who had been executed under the federal death penalty over the prior seven decades.
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