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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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6. I think the probability of another federal execution is small and still falling

Reply to MyUncle (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2015, 04:23 PM

May 2015

Unless some future Attorney General makes it their mission to push the file. And even then a federal prosecutor told me that even under John Ashcroft demands to push the files to execution were basically ignored.

The federal and military death penalty is basically a victim of total institutional indifference to it's very existence.

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There are more than 60 death row inmates on Federal Death Row... [View all] MyUncle May 2015 OP

I predict that the Supreme Court will find the death penalty unconstitutional before Tsaraev is morningfog May 2015 #1

I agree, cryptically that was my point. MyUncle May 2015 #2

weird rec'ing this marym625 May 2015 #3

Same here, marym. darkangel218 May 2015 #7

My sympathies are with his victims. phil89 May 2015 #4

marym625 Could you support a "death penalty" that does not result in a Gov induced death? MyUncle May 2015 #5

yep, strange question marym625 May 2015 #8

I think the probability of another federal execution is small and still falling Sen. Walter Sobchak May 2015 #6