Supreme Court Clears Way for Trump Administration’s Plans to Resume Federal Executions
The Supreme Court on Monday declined a challenge by several death row inmates asking justices to clarify the law on how the government carries out federal executions. The decision paves way for the Trump administration to push forward with its plans to resume federal executions after a nearly 20-year pause.
The four inmates who were convicted for murdering children argued that their scheduled lethal injections would violate the 1994 Federal Death Penalty Act, which says that the method of execution should be determined by the state where a capital crime is committed.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was initially blocked from carrying out the executions after a district court granted a preliminary injunction, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled early April that the Trump administration’s plan to resume executions of federal death row prisoners by lethal injection is lawful, tossing out the lower court’s decision….
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