Donald Trump reintroduces the death penalty: the US president’s “ultimate cruelty”

US President Donald Trump has reintroduced federal executions after being suspended for 17 years. His Justice Department is planning five more executions before Joe Biden is handed over.

Updated from Sunday, November 29, 2020, 4:36 pm: Brandon Bernard, Alfred Bourgeois, Lisa Montgomery, Corey Johnson, Dustin Higgs. These are the names of the five people requested by the United States Department of Justice Donald Trump until the inauguration of Joe Biden wants to be executed. All four people are black. In that case, the government of the elected US president would have 13 people within six months to execute to leave. That a president has more than one person at the federal level in the period between election and handover to execute it was the last in the 19th century.

Executions: Donald Trump’s “The Last Atrocity”

The “New York Times” names the attempt to Donald Trump, all Executions even before the inauguration of Joe Biden Perform on January 20th to want to disgrace them from anti-abortion opponent Biden, “Trump’s latest cruelty”.

Although all five prison inmates on Trump’s death list with the Lethal injection must be executed, Trump pushed for a further tightening of the death penalty: from now on, federal executions should be possible under state rules by pronouncing the respective death sentence. That is, in addition to the Lethal injection then also at the federal level Electric chair, one Firing squad or Poisonous gas could be used, for example Mississippi is Oklahoma anticipate these practices.

USA: Donald Trump pushes for executions before the handover

First report Friday, November 20, 2020, 6:01 pm: Washington DC – Donald Trump is a supporter of death penalty. Although the loser in the 2020 US election is not considered a particularly biblical Christian, he follows the creed “One eye and one eye, tooth for a tooth” – in the spirit of his largely evangelical core constituency. And so it is Trump who insisted Executions at the federal level, after being de facto canceled for 17 years.

Donald Trump ensures that the United States reintroduces the death penalty at the federal level

Just before midnight (local time, November 18, 2020) Orlando Hall was executed in Terre Haute prison in Indiana. Previously, his lawyers had tried execution delay the filing of multiple court files at the last minute. Hall, 49, became the eighth person to be executed by the U.S. government since the Trump administration Executions of the pact again.

The Department of Justice has performed more fatal injections in the past four months than in the previous three decades at the federal level. Agrees that Donald Trump after his electoral defeat to Joe Biden, his Justice Department was particularly urgent to do so Executions to cause. Why Joe Biden is considered an opponent of death penalty and had repeatedly announced during the election campaign that statutory ordinances would be initiated to prevent the Executions cease at the federal level e Death penalty commuted to life imprisonment.

Executions: Supreme Court follows Donald Trump’s line

Is that of Donald Trump With his three nominations since taking office in 2017, the Supreme Court, which has been moved to the right, is at stake. In the case of Orlando Hall, accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl, the US Supreme Court lifted the blockade execution previously ordered by a district judge on the day of the scheduled execution. Therefore, the execution scheduled for 18:00 was postponed for a few hours, but was still carried out on the announced day.

At least one more federal death sentence is expected to be carried out by the end of the year, with Brandon Bernard being sentenced to death in 1999 due to be executed on December 10. The execution Lisa Montgomery, another candidate to be executed later this year, was initially postponed until December 31st. Your attorneys had previously contracted the Crown and a court granted them an extension to process their leniency request. Montgomery would be the first woman to be federally executed in nearly 70 years.

US death penalty: Lisa Montgomery could become first woman in 70 years to be executed federally

Bernard and Montgomery should also be executed first Donald Trump If the White House surrenders to Joe Biden in January, there would be 52 more inmates sentenced to death at the federal level, the information center said. Death penalty in front of the “Washington Post” with. John H. Blume, director of the Cornell Law School’s death penalty project, predicts that the policy will be changed once Biden takes office as the (likely) 46th president of the United States in January, according to the newspaper.

Blume assumes Biden will have a moratorium Executions federal government requires an investigation into death penalty request and based on the result some Death sentences will convert to life imprisonment. Biden and his attorney general “will be in control immediately, and I think as soon as the president-elect becomes president, the federal executions will end,” Blume said.

Donald Trump’s administration shows no mercy

The change of charge comes too late for Orlando Hall. The government around Donald Trump he had no mercy, according to his presentation to the Supreme Court on Thursday: “The public and the victim’s family have a huge interest in the implementation of what a jury had recommended a quarter century ago. death penalty against the petitioner, who has committed a horrific series of crimes against a child and could have presented a pardon in the last 13 years “. (Mirko Schmid)

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