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~ U.S. federal government to resume executions after nearly 2 de
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By: BuzzC Date: July 25, 2019, 2:03 pm
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U.S. federal government to resume executions after nearly 2
decades--
Barr orders execution of 5 inmates be scheduled
Thursday, July 25, 2019
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Attorney General William Barr directed the federal government
Thursday to resume capital punishment after nearly two decades
and has directed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule the execution
of five inmates after adopting an updated execution protocol.
Barr has directed the head of the Bureau of Prisons to execute
"five death-row inmates convicted of murdering, and in some
cases torturing and raping, the most vulnerable in our society —
children and the elderly," according to a statement from the
Department of Justice.
At Barr's direction, the Bureau of Prisons has adopted the
Federal Execution Protocol Addendum which "replaces the
three-drug procedure previously used in federal executions with
a single drug—pentobarbital," the Justice Department announced.
•Daniel Lewis Lee, a member of a white supremacist group,
murdered a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl.
After robbing and shooting the victims with a stun gun, Lee
covered their heads with plastic bags, sealed the bags with duct
tape, weighed down each victim with rocks, and threw the family
of three into the Illinois bayou. On May 4, 1999, a jury in the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas found
Lee guilty of numerous offenses, including three counts of
murder in aid of racketeering, and he was sentenced to death.
Lee’s execution is scheduled to occur on Dec. 9, 2019.
•Lezmond Mitchell stabbed to death a 63-year-old grandmother and
forced her nine-year-old granddaughter to sit beside her
lifeless body for a 30 to 40-mile drive. Mitchell then slit the
girl’s throat twice, crushed her head with 20-pound rocks, and
severed and buried both victims’ heads and hands. On May 8,
2003, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Arizona found Mitchell guilty of numerous offenses, including
first degree murder, felony murder, and carjacking resulting in
murder, and he was sentenced to death. Mitchell’s execution is
scheduled to occur on Dec. 11, 2019.
•Wesley Ira Purkey violently raped and murdered a 16-year-old
girl, and then dismembered, burned, and dumped the young girl’s
body in a septic pond. He also was convicted in state court for
using a claw hammer to bludgeon to death an 80-year-old woman
who suffered from polio and walked with a cane. On Nov. 5,
2003, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District
of Missouri found Purkey guilty of kidnapping a child resulting
in the child’s death, and he was sentenced to death. Purkey’s
execution is scheduled to occur on Dec. 13, 2019.
•Alfred Bourgeois physically and emotionally tortured, sexually
molested, and then beat to death his two-and-a-half-year-old
daughter. On March 16, 2004, a jury in the U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of Texas found Bourgeois guilty of
multiple offenses, including murder, and he was sentenced to
death. Bourgeois’ execution is scheduled to occur on Jan. 13,
2020.
•Dustin Lee Honken shot and killed five people—two men who
planned to testify against him and a single, working mother and
her ten-year-old and six-year-old daughters. On Oct. 14, 2004, a
jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
Iowa found Honken guilty of numerous offenses, including five
counts of murder during the course of a continuing criminal
enterprise, and he was sentenced to death. Honken’s execution
is scheduled to occur on Jan. 15, 2020.
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Re: ~ U.S. federal government to resume executions after nearly
2 decades ~
By: BuzzC Date: June 16, 2020, 5:01 am
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New execution dates set for federal inmates on death row--
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has set new dates to
begin executing federal death-row inmates following a months
long legal battle over the plan to resume the executions for the
first time since 2003.
Attorney General William Barr directed the federal Bureau of
Prisons to schedule the executions, beginning in mid-July, of
four inmates convicted of killing children. Three of the men had
been scheduled to be put to death when Barr announced the
federal government would resume executions last year, ending an
informal moratorium on federal capital punishment as the issue
receded from the public domain.
The Justice Department had scheduled five executions set to
begin in December, but some of the inmates challenged the new
procedures in court, arguing that the government was
circumventing proper methods in order to wrongly execute inmates
quickly.
The department wouldn't say why the executions of two of the
inmates scheduled in December hadn't been rescheduled.
The federal government’s initial effort was put on hold by a
trial judge, and the federal appeals court in Washington and the
Supreme Court both declined to step in late last year. But in
April, the appeals court threw out the judge’s order. Lawyers
for the inmates are asking the Supreme Court to order a halt to
the process.
“The American people, acting through Congress and Presidents of
both political parties, have long instructed that defendants
convicted of the most heinous crimes should be subject to a
sentence of death,” Barr said in a statement. “The four
murderers whose executions are scheduled today have received
full and fair proceedings under our Constitution and laws. We
owe it to the victims of these horrific crimes, and to the
families left behind, to carry forward the sentence imposed by
our justice system."
The resumption comes as the federal prison has struggled to
combat the coronavirus pandemic behind bars, including at least
one death at USP Terre Haute, where they will take place. One
inmate there has died from COVID-19.
The inmates who will be executed are: Danny Lee, who was
convicted in Arkansas of killing a family of three, including an
8-year-old; Wesley Ira Purkey, of Kansas, who raped and murdered
a 16-year-old girl and killed an 80-year-old woman; Dustin Lee
Honken, who killed five people in Iowa, including two children;
and Keith Dwayne Nelson, who kidnapped a 10-year-old girl who
was rollerblading in front of her Kansas home and raped her in a
forest behind a church before strangling the young girl with a
wire.
Three of the executions — for Lee, Purkley and Honken — are
scheduled days apart beginning July 13. Nelson's execution is
scheduled for Aug. 28. The Justice Department said additional
executions will be set at a later date.
Executions on the federal level have been rare and the
government has put to death only three defendants since
restoring the federal death penalty in 1988 — most recently in
2003, when Louis Jones was executed for the 1995 kidnapping,
rape and murder of a young female soldier. Though there hasn’t
been a federal execution since 2003, the Justice Department has
continued to approve death penalty prosecutions and federal
courts have sentenced defendants to death.
The attorney general said last July that the NoBama-era review
had been completed, clearing the way for executions to resume.
He approved a new procedure for lethal injections that replaces
the three-drug combination previously used in federal executions
with one drug, pentobarbital. This is similar to the procedure
used in several states, including Georgia, Missouri and Texas,
but not all.
Barr told the AP in November that the federal Bureau of Prisons
had been testing and conducting practice drills ahead of the
first execution. He would not say where the drugs would come
from.
Those chosen were among inmates who had exhausted their appeals,
and the cases were forwarded to senior Justice Department
officials who reviewed the cases and made recommendations to
him, Barr said.
President Donald Trump has spoken often about capital punishment
and his belief that executions serve as an effective deterrent
and an appropriate punishment for some crimes, including mass
shootings and the killings of police officers.
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