Opinion: Barbarism on hold as judge halts Trump's effort to restart federal executions (via latimesopinion)
of convicted murders, ruling that the method of execution the government intended to use violated the Federal Death Penalty Act requiring that it kill condemned prisoners using practices followed by the states in which the sentences were handed down.
But Barr’s order did just that. He revised the federal government’s previous practice — which also seems to have violated the Federal Death Penalty Act — of using a three-drug protocol and replaced it with a single execution drug, pentobarbital, noting that a number of states had similarly made that switch. One of the menin Texas and and another in Missouri, states that have a single-drug protocol. The other two were sentenced in states that still use the three-drug protocol.
The government argued that the Federal Death Penalty Act allows for the federal government to use lethal injection in states that allow it, and that the protocol itself is irrelevant. Not so, the judge said.
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