Justice Department to resume federal executions for first time in 16 years

[demmiblue]

Source: The Hill

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will resume capital punishment for the first time in nearly two decades.

Attorney General William Barr has directed that executions for five death-row inmates be scheduled. If carried out, they will be the first federal executions since 2003.

Only three federal executions have taken place since 1988, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. All five of the death-row inmates named in Thursday's release were convicted for the murders of children.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has adopted a regulation that will require federal authorities to use a single drug, pentobarbital, in federal executions, according to the DOJ release. That drug is used by several states for lethal injections.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/454700-justice-department-to-resume-federal-executions-for-first-time-in-16

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Our descent to barbarism continues.

[demmiblue]

16. +1

And so quickly.

[Bradshaw3]

2. Set up for the Willie Horton ads in 2020

We'll see images of brown and black guys who are being "dealt with" by the sicko faux tough guy in the WH riding racism to what he hopes will be another term.

[DesertRat]

3. This makes a mockery of the administration's claim of being "pro-life." nt

[jmowreader]

11. You're being facetious, I assume

The Catholics are the only major group that’s both anti-abortion and anti-death penalty. The rest of the “pro-life” crowd LOVES executions.

[lapucelle]

27. When Catholic Paul Ryan was Speaker, his number was frst on the Nuns On A Bus

"phone Catholic legislators" list for social justice action.

The good Sisters trolled him mercilessly for being anti-abortion rather than pro-poor, pro-immigrant, and pro-marginalized.

When making phone calls, we were told to remind Speaker Ryan that politicians who wish to claim the pro-life mantle cannot be in the business taking funding away from social welfare programs and taking healthcare away from anyone.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

The sadism is very important. When I first started talking about Trump as a malignant narcissist, people could see the narcissism, the paranoia and the antisocial element. But the fourth component of malignant narcissism is sadism. You see it in everything he does, from the separating of the children at the border to how Trump tortures anyone who doesn't give him what he wants. There's a way in which he takes a kind of manic glee in causing harm and pain and humiliation to other people.

...

Malignant narcissists deteriorate. When they gain power, they become more inflamed in their grandiosity and in their paranoia. They also become more unrestrained in their sadism and in their will to power. Malignant narcissists like Trump are antisocial and have a willingness to do anything to get and keep power. The noted psychologist Erich Fromm actually argued that such personalities then begin to verge on psychosis at that point, becoming so grandiose and paranoid that they really live on the boundary of psychosis and reality.

https://www.salon.com/2018/06/13/psychologist-john-gartner-on-trumps-behavior-its-a-coup-thats-not-moving-slowly-anymore/

[Recursion]

5. God damn it

We aren't supposed to be going backwards like this

[Marthe48]

6. With or without fair trials?

n/t

[elleng]

7. NEVER a guarantee, which is WHY the death penalty should NEVER be implemented.

[Marthe48]

9. I was being sarcastic

But you do bring to mind a whole different problem, which before this disgusting administration was of more concern than our Constitutional right to a fair trial, let alone a trial at all, was something we have to question.

[elleng]

10. Thought so, but I had to say it.

And of course, it's up to every jurisdiction to provide fair trials; repugs will never provide them, and surely won't guarantee them.

[ck4829]

24. Hmmm, what do you think?

[Marthe48]

8. Does anyone know their names?

The convicted murderers. And how their crimes caused them to be picked out for the death penalty from the other convicted child murderers?

Is the pentobarbitol the drug which caused such agony in Texas and Ohio in the last few years, to the point that a drug company refused to supply the state(s) with the drug?

Like all of the other episodes, watch for this to go terribly wrong.

[OnlinePoker]

14. Here's a list of all federal death row inmates

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-and-federal-info/federal-death-penalty/list-of-federal-death-row-prisoners#list

[Marthe48]

17. Thank you

I'll see if I can find the information.

[Blazesweetie]

21. Here are the 5 -

that are going to be executed:

Daniel Lee Lewis
Lezmond Mitchell
Wesley Purkey
Alfred Bourgeois
Dustin Lee Honken

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/us/five-inmates-federal-executions/index.html

[Marthe48]

22. Thanks!

I never heard of any of them.

[Blue_Tires]

12. I know I'm beating the skeleton of a dead horse here, but

I **REALLY** want to have a long conversation with some of the more notorious, smug, high-profile peddlers of this lie:

"ANYBODY BUT HILLARY! Because both candidates are the same, Trump can't possibly be any worse!!!"

Because I know for a fact that most of them in the three years since have been carrying on with their lives like nothing happened...

[jmowreader]

13. Fuckin' man up, Barr

If you’re going to start executing federal prisoners to prove how tough Trump is on crime, forget this lethal injection crap (that no one has ever been able to get right and that’s almost impossible to do anymore because the people who make the drugs you need won’t sell them to you) and go back to firing squads. And forget the Utah “big chair” style firing squad; line them up against the wall and let them fall over when you shoot them.

[moonseller66]

15. Hey Willie, boy...

Remember this when trump is tried, found guilty and convicted of treason against America in 2021 with a death sentence pronounced on him.

[cstanleytech]

18. Nothing like government sanctioned killing to rally the base around.

[turbinetree]

19. Hey Barr can I call you Barr..................you said this in your comments in a sentence

"The Justice Department upholds the rule of law" .....................well first of all those seven words in your comment is well ................BS.

You do not uphold the "Rule of Law".

What a sick fucking joke..................you have been running interference and enabling a POS that has aided and abetted in obstruction of justice for a "crime family" that basically is acting actively in an act of treason and other crimes, with a foreign power's enabled by outside firms ..........................and so now to create more deflection in / from the Mueller testimony, and that act of treason and other criminal acts from days gone by, yesterday and today, you have decided, the day after the Congressional hearing that showed that the country has a fucking felon sitting in the white house with his lackeys; to put forth this memo.........................got it, another Federalist Society tactic...........................deflect.................."rule of law"...............................who's law, Barr's, Trumps.....................

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Tyranny by decree, and,

where all authority is delegated, we have tyranny without a tyrant. Moreover, the decrees will be backed up by the unqualified, toady judges they have installed after the 2016 Great Usurpation.

We have work to do!

[PSPS]

23. This is how incrementalism works. Now trump/barr brings federal executions into the "new normal"

[ck4829]

25. Yep

[democratisphere]

26. Becoming more of a dictatorship each day.

The state should never kill its citizens for any reason.

[Freethinker65]

28. Next, public executions! Think of those crowds. Perfect for Trump rally backdrops.

Perhaps Trump can auction off the best seats for campaign donations and corporations can sponsor the patriotic events.

To use executions to score political points is sick, and that is what Trump through Barr intends to do.