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News about Capital Punishment, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
- What Has Biden Done to Date?
- What Has The White House Said?
- What About The Moritorium?
- What Does The Review During The Moratorium Entail?
- What About The Protocols?
- What Do Death Penalty Opponents Want done?
Biden himself has not issued any formal directives or policy statements on federal capital punishment. During the 2016 campaign, he vowed both to end the federal death penalty for good, and to work at ending it in all states. He has been silent on both federal and state death penalties. The lack of clear steps toward abolishing the death penalty or...
In an email to The Associated Press earlier this year, the White House said the president “has long talked about his concerns about how the death penalty is applied and whether it is consistent with the values fundamental to our sense of justice and fairness.” It added Biden supports the attorney general’s decision to impose the moratorium. “The DO...
Garland announced a halt to federal executionsin 2021, meaning the Justice Department won’t issue orders to execute anyone, at least while the moratorium is in place. But the moratorium doesn’t stop the department from pursuing the death penalty and it doesn’t stop U.S. prosecutors from continuing to fight legal action by death row inmates trying t...
The Justice Department hasn’t offered details, including end goals or timetables. Garland has said the review would look at protocols put in place by Trump’s attorney general, William Barr. Attorneys for death row inmates criticized the protocols, saying they allowed for hurried executions. What the review does not entail is an assessment of whethe...
In September, the Justice Department issued a public notice seeking comment about changes to Trump protocols, including one permitting execution methods other than lethal injection, such as firing squads. In a recent letter, Democratic U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Sen. Dick Durbin urged the Justice Department to quickly annul all the Trump protoco...
They say Biden should draw on his presidential powers to commute all federal death sentences to life in prison, which would prevent those death sentences from ever being restored. There’s also proposed legislation to strike the death penalty from U.S. statutes and resentence the more than 40 inmates still on federal death row to life. Biden has giv...
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Dec 16, 2022 · The use and imposition of the death penalty in America saw a continued decline in 2022 as polls showed public support for capital punishment stayed near historic lows, according to a year-end...
Nov 15, 2021 · A murder committed by an inmate already serving a life sentence is a capital crime, and he was sentenced to death. Lawyers for Mr. Coonce asked the justices to return his case to an appeals court...
Oct 6, 2023 · CNN — Since reaching historic highs in the late 1990s and early 2000s, use of the death penalty in America has steadily declined, with a dwindling number of jurisdictions responsible for a...
Jan 2, 2024 · The series illustrated the full range of systemic flaws of capital punishment in America: the targeting of people of color, low-income people, people with intellectual disability and mental illness, and other marginalized persons; the rampant police and prosecution dishonesty and demagoguery; the grossly underfunded and incompetent representatio...
