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.
Unless your name is Ashli Babbitt.
He probably made an exception for Republicans.
Saving the lives of criminals, while condemning the unborn to death.
And no trial, at that.
does that include the FEMA/FIB guillotines
that he, Obola and the late Comey perfected
to murder Trump-supporting conservatives
and those who despise their CCP-controlled
and CCP-paid bioweapon takeover of the USA?
A fine example of a Liberal.
Will Garland also issue a moratorium on criminals killing innocent people?
Because that would really help.
Harris/Biden will,through Executive Orders,do away with executions.
If ANYONE deserved the death penalty, it was Lisa Montgomery.
So glad he’s not on SCOTUS
..........Democrats are ok with murdering babies in or out of the womb but won’t kill a serial killer. I’ve never understood that.
Other than Japan, I can’t think of a nation I can respect that still has capital punishment. Death is too good for some people and the fact that it is applied poorly and haphazardly by our incompetent governments make me an opponent, which is a minority opinion here.
Ah, yes, the guy that the MSM, Dems, and even some RINOs pinky promised was a moderate back when he was being considered for SCOTUS shows his “moderate” side yet again.
They sure couldn’t wait to execute McVeigh, though.
The federal government under former President Trump in 2020 carried out the first federal executions in the United States in two decades.
“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,”
What does that even mean?
Atty. Gen. Garland: “Have Alt-Liberal Bias, Will Travel”
What Kickass said.
Every Dem vote from prison must really count, it seems.
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