Barr directs federal government to resume capital punishment

[sandensea]

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Source: CNN

Attorney General William Barr directed the the federal government Thursday to resume capital punishment after nearly two decades and has directed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule the execution of five inmates after adopting an updated execution protocol.

Barr has directed the head of the Bureau of Prisons to execute "five death-row inmates convicted of murdering, and in some cases torturing and raping, the most vulnerable in our society — children and the elderly," according to a statement from the Department of Justice.

At Barr's direction, the Bureau of Prisons has adopted the Federal Execution Protocol Addendum which "replaces the three-drug procedure previously used in federal executions with a single drug—pentobarbital," the Justice Department announced.

The Federal Government has not used the death penalty since 2003.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/politics/justice-department-capital-punishment-barr/index.html

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Attorney General Bill Barr: Wondering if the new policy will apply to him someday?

[Javaman]

1. Prick. nt

[sandensea]

2. It would be poetic justice if it were used against him and that degenerate boss of his for treason

Although, of course, a future Democratic administration would probably commute their sentence to life in prison.

[jayschool2013]

3. Is he going to call it "Monday Night Rehabilitation"?

A la Mike Judge's "Idiocracy?

[machoneman]

4. Does Barr really have the final decision here? Anybody know for sure? Seems very odd...

...that the decision to stop executions years ago was only done so on the then acting AG's authority. Would not the then President and/or Congress have the power to start or stop said executions? Only one man, not even elected, can do this?

[sandensea]

8. Cheeto, as you know, largely governs by decree

Like Putin and those third world tin-pots he pals around with.

[cp]

5. Despicable

[Farmer-Rick]

6. What a piece of crap.

Is he going to use the death penalty on his old pal Epstein after he is convicted?

[KPN]

7. What an evil prick. I would love to see him indicted

and put in prison for a very long stay at some point in the not too distant future. Doubt it will ever happen as consequences and accountability for high crimes against the state by people in high places no longer exist it seems — if they ever really did in our lifetimes at least.

[Yonnie3]

9. Locking as a Duplicate

Duplicate of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142345829 Justice Department to resume federal executions for first time in 16 years posted at 10:31 EDT today.
Please continue discussion there.