William Barr has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to schedule executions for five federal inmates in the next six months, the first time in more than 16 years
The death chamber of the new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. The number of people executed in the United States in 2015 dropped to the lowest level since 1991 as states impose fewer death sentences and defendants in capital cases have access to better legal help.Attorney General that the federal government will use capital punishment. The Department of Justice announced Barr’s order in a statement on Thursday.
The DOJ confirmed it would use a single drug — the potent sedative pentobarbital, prescribed to treat epilepsy and insomnia — rather than the three-drug cocktail previously used for federal and state executions. Manufacturers and suppliers of the three drugs, including pentobarbital, have protested their use for capital punishment in the past.
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