Posted on 07/01/2021 5:18:01 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced a moratorium on federal executions, a shift from the Trump administration, which had resumed the use of the death penalty in federal cases.
Garland said in the memo that the Justice Department would also review its policies and procedures to make sure they "are consistent with the principles articulated in this memorandum.”
“The Department of Justice must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice system is not only afforded the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States, but is also treated fairly and humanely,” Garland said in a statement. “That obligation has special force in capital cases.”
The attorney general said that the internal review of DOJ policies will include “the risk of pain and suffering associated with the use of pentobarbital,” a drug used during the Trump administration for lethal injections, as well as changes made in November 2020 “that expanded the permissible methods of execution beyond lethal injection, and authorized the use of state facilities and personnel in federal executions.”
The federal government under former President Trump in 2020 carried out the first federal executions in the United States in two decades.
There were 13 total executions carried out federally during Trump’s presidency, with some executed just days before he left the Oval Office.
The executions included 52-year-old Lisa Montgomery, the first woman put to death by the federal government in nearly 70 years.
At first I thought you were saying late actress Liz Montgomery deserves the death penalty.
Now, I have my Good Glasses on!
“Bobbie Jo Stinnett (December 4, 1981 – December 16, 2004) was a pregnant 23-year-old American woman found murdered in her home in Skidmore, Missouri. The perpetrator, Lisa Marie Montgomery,[3] then aged 36, strangled Stinnett and cut her unborn fetus, eight months into gestation, from her womb. The baby was safely recovered by authorities and returned to the father.[4]”
“Montgomery was tried and found guilty in 2007. She was executed by lethal injection shortly after midnight on January 13, 2021, having exhausted the appeals process.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bobbie_Jo_Stinnett
Liberals are like Satan. They love the bad guys.
IOW, we know that the judicial branch has rejected the idea that the federal death penalty process violates the law/Constitution, but we are going to say they are unfair and potentially painfully cruel anyway because we have an agenda to carry out.
Well, when there is more to the story you don’t want getting out, some of the players have to be silenced.
And she never had a trial, you swine, Garland.
As long as you are a Richard Castellano fan you still deserve respect and a cannoli.
“What does that mean?” you ask.
Let me translate. No means no. Except maybe for the occasional white supremacist.
Talk about a non issue. If done correctly, with a max of 2-3years for appeals, it might have an impact, with deterrence. But we never carry it out for 25-30 years so screw it, what’s the point?
Same with middle east Wars after 9/11. Had they told me beforehand that they were just there to fight but not win, well, I would have been anti-war.
And she never had a trial, you swine, Garland.
Oh yeah, except for Timothy McVeigh. Feds were able to get it together pretty efficiently for that case.
Of course!
Satanic minds contrive Satanic deeds and protect Satanic people.
When federal executions start again, Garland and the coup plotters need to be on the top of the list. /spit.
Garland is trying to head off the executions of so many Democrats for election fraud and ergo, treason.
You’re in good company. I oppose the death penalty in any case that is built in part or whole on circumstantial evidence.
Why?
BECAUSE COPS LIE. AND IT’S LEGAL FOR THEM TO LIE!!!
I still remember the morons in the media saying Garland was a moderate.
So glad McConnell blocked this JERK from being on SCOTUS.
Makes perfect sense to me. You just have to ask yourself what Satan would do, and there you go.
I remember that case, beyond evil. I think there has been at least one similar case since that one.
instead of executing them, he’ll be releasing them.
It means keeping the guilty alive is good for Commie kooks
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