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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
As Trump DOJ Resumes Federal Capital Punishment After Two-Decade Lapse, Sanders Calls for Abolition
of Death Penalty
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday vowed to abolish the death penalty at the federal level if elected president after news broke that Attorney General William Barr has directed the Bureau of Prisons to resume capital punishment for the first time in nearly two decades.
"There's enough violence in the world. The government shouldn't add to it," tweeted Sanders, the first 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to respond to the news. "When I am president, we will abolish the death penalty."
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In his directive, Barr ordered the Bureau of Prisons to schedule the execution of five inmates currently on death row.
According to the Washington Post the "last federal execution was in 2003."
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/25/trump-doj-resumes-federal-capital-punishment-after-two-decade-lapse-sanders-calls
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Undecided
