President Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to work toward abolishing federal capital punishment but has taken no major steps to that end.
on a man who killed eight people in an attack on a bicycle path.
“The Biden administration appears to have no understanding that inaction, if it continues, will result in executions,” said Robert Dunham, who heads the nonpartisan Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C. “The Biden administration executions will be carried out by a future administration. But they will be Biden executions.”WHAT ABOUT ONGOING DEATH PENALTY CASES?the Justice Department hasn't sought the death penalty in any new cases.
But it 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 to avoid execution. What the review does not entail is an assessment of whether the federal death penalty should be scrapped entirely.
A replacement was needed after pharmaceutical companies in the 2000s began prohibiting executioners from using their drugs, saying they were meant to save lives, not take them. The Barr Justice Department chose pentobarbital, a painful sensation akin to drowning as fluid rushes into the lungs.
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