Feds Restart Executions, Killing in Our Name During a Deadly Pandemic

Guards at a roadblock at the Federal Correctional Complex where Daniel Lewis Lee was scheduled to be executed on July 13 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images As the federal government restarts the “machinery of death” this week — with the killing of prisoners on death row in Terre Haute, Indiana, after a 17-year hiatus on federal executions — a grim reality check is in order.

How exactly does this statement square with the Justice Department’s view that it must kill the condemned to honor his victims? We don’t know. The Feds didn’t say before they executed Lee, after the Supreme Court, in the middle of the night, sanctioned the killing. This administration, like so many state administrations, seems to honor the wishes of family members of murder victims only when they support capital punishment.

One argument the Justice Department has made to justify the resumption of executions is that the government has a moral obligation to mete out duly authorized punishment both as a means of deterrence and retribution. That it’s a bad argument, undermined by empirical research, doesn’t stop it from routinely being cited by prosecutors and judges.

Those are questions the Justice Department has refused to answer. They are questions the Bureau of Prisons has failed to answer. And they are questions the Supreme Court refused to answer when it issued an extraordinary 5-4 ruling authorizing the resumption of federal executions without resolving legitimate legal questions raised by attorneys for the condemned.

None of these objections, religious or otherwise, matter to Barr and President Trump, of course. The entire purpose of the execution exercise is to be able to tell Trump’s base on the campaign trail this fall that the president proved again that he is “tough on crime.” If the condemned are executed, it’s good news for Trump.

JustADCohen For Bill Barr and Donald Trump, 'We can' is all the justification they need to restart federal executions.

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