BREAKING: A U.S. federal judge issued an injunction stopping what would have been the first federal execution in 17 years, scheduled for later in the day, to allow the continuation of legal challenges against the government's lethal-injection protocol
- A U.S. federal judge issued an injunction on Monday stopping what would have been the first federal execution in 17 years, scheduled for later in the day, to allow the continuation of legal challenges against the government's lethal-injection protocol.
Judge Chutkan has been overseeing cases brought by inmates on death row who argue that the Justice Department's new one-drug protocol breaks various administrative and drug-control laws and is unconstitutional. The department had scheduled two more executions for later in the week and a fourth in August, of Wesley Purkey, Dustin Honken and Keith Nelson, all convicted of murdering children.
In announcing the planned resumption of executions, Attorney General William Barr said last year:"We owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system."
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