America's Supreme Court has rebuffed Donald Trump’s bid to hasten executions. But that may not stop America from executing federal prisoners as early as next month
EXECUTIONS IN America peaked in 1999, when 98 prisoners were put to death in 20 states. Last year, there were 25 executions in eight states. Thus far in 2019, seven states have executed just 21 prisoners, with one more on the calendar. But in July William Barr, Donald Trump’s attorney-general, gave the death penalty fresh life when he announced that the federal government would execute federal prisoners for the first time since 2003.
The five had been slated to die over a five-week period beginning on December 9th. One man, Lezmond Mitchell, had his December 11th execution date temporarily blocked by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in October over concerns that his trial may have been marred by racial bias.
On December 2nd, a three-judge panel at the circuit court of appeals for the District of Columbia refused to lift Judge Chutkan’s delay. Hours later, the Trump administration filed an emergency application at the Supreme Court to put the executions back on the calendar. On Friday night, however, the Supreme Court declined to short-circuit the usual process for settling such questions. The dispute over how to interpret the 1994 rule involves contestable—and unresolved—questions of law. And the government had acknowledged that restarting executions would have resulted in the defendants’ deaths before their appeals were fully considered.
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