4 of 5 inmates that the US Justice Dept. plans to execute under the policy it updated today are eligible for the federal death penalty because of provisions in the 1994 anti-crime law sponsored by 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden.
Daniel Lewis Lee, Lezmond Mitchell, Wesley Ira Purkey, Alfred Bourgeois and Dustin Lee Honkin are scheduled to be put to death between December and January. All but Bourgeois were convicted of federal capital crimes that were established under the 1994 law, according to Christopher Slobogin, chair in law and director of the criminal justice program at Vanderbilt University.A spokesman for Biden did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for comment on the DOJ plan.
"On the politics, it's perversely brilliant; it drives a deeper wedge between Biden and his opponents, and perhaps even more deviously, between Biden 1994 and Biden 2019," said Jeff Smith, a former Democratic state senator from Missouri and author of Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America's Prison Crisis.
Biden's turnaround put him in line with almost everyone else in the Democratic presidential field, including Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., but at a time when he is trying to navigate the shoals of both the primary and a possible general election matchup with Trump, it also gives Trump ammunition to portray him as moving leftward to appease Democratic primary voters.
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