I guess Dubya got enough satisfaction from killing Middle Easterners that he didn't need to kill any more US prisoners.A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit seemed to lean in favor of four inmates whose executions, scheduled to take place over recent weeks, were temporarily halted last year.
During oral arguments, a lawyer for the Justice Department faced tough questions about whether the administration’s new approach to lethal injections violated a federal law that calls on the government to defer to states over the method of execution.
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Attorney General William Barr last July announced that executions would resume under a new lethal injection protocol that utilizes a single drug, pentobarbital sodium.
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Tatel was joined by two Trump appointees, Judges Neomi Rao and Gregory Katsas, both of whom asked sharp questions about the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to resume executions, which have not been carried out at the federal level since 2003.
The Hill
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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