'This is batshit crazy,' responded Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan. 'This is how dictators handle crime. This man should never, ever be president again.'
earlier this month that"among those executed in our name were two Black men who were not the triggermen in murders committed by others; two Black men with significant claims of intellectual disability; one member of the Navajo Nation; two men who were teenagers when they committed their crimes; and a mentally ill woman who had been repeatedly abused and tortured as a child, teen, and young woman.
"Previously, lethal injection was the only permissible federal method of execution," Suebsaeng and Reis observed."But under the administration's new rules, if lethal injections are made legally or logistically unavailable, the federal government can use any method that is legal in the state where the execution is located."Rolling Stone
in December that Trump and his administration would have had more people put to death soon, had he won a second term in 2020," the outlet continued."'Yes—that was the expectation,' Barr succinctly summarized in a phone interview.
The Republican former president has even"mused about televising footage of executions, including showing condemned prisoners in the final moments of their lives," according to one of's sources."Trump has floated these ideas while discussing planned campaign rhetoric and policy desires, as well as his disdain for President Biden's approach to crime."
Democratic lawmakers and watchdog organizations reacted with alarm and disgust to the reporting, which comes as the Biden administration is
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