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Supreme Court won’t let Justice Dept. immediately resume federal executions after hiatus
By Mark Berman and Robert Barnes
Dec. 6, 2019 at 7:02 p.m. EST
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to let the Justice Department immediately resume federal executions, denying the government’s request to bypass a lower-court ruling that the department likely exceeded.
The court’s action puts on hold a series of executions that the government had planned for next week and next month.
When the Justice Department announced in July its plans to resume federal executions, Attorney General William P. Barr said in a statement that “we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.”
The department also unveiled a new lethal injection protocol, one that involves a single drug — pentobarbital — rather than the three-drug procedure it had previously used. It planned to use this protocol in five executions scheduled for December and January, the federal government’s first since 2003.
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