Tag: death row inmates
Trump administration brings back federal death penalty & starts scheduling executions
The federal government will resume executing prisoners, Attorney General William Barr announced today. It has been over two decades since a federal prisoner was killed in America.
President Donald Trump, a longtime supporter of the death penalty, infamously called for a group of NYC teenagers to be executed for a crime they did not commit. With the Trump administration’s atrocious record on civil rights for immigrants, people of color, and LGBTQ people, the message is a chilling one.
The State Department...