The federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., home to the U.S. government's death chamber. Executions there are set to continue even as the new administration prepares to take power.The federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., home to the U.S. government's death chamber. Executions there are set to continue even as the new administration prepares to take power.
If the Justice Department plan moves forward, 13 people will have faced death by lethal injection during the Trump administration. Legal experts who follow capital punishment said that would be the most since the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who served 12 years in office before his death in 1945.
Their legal teams say Bourgeois and Johnson suffer from intellectual disabilities and that Higgs didn't pull the trigger to kill the women. Instead, the man who admitted firing the weapon was tried separately and was sentenced to life in prison. Dunham said the unusual moves by the Justice Department also extended to an announcement about a decision to seek capital punishment against a defendant who has not yet gone to trial. Last week,by Barr to seek death against a member of the MS-13 gang accused in several killings.
Monster
What happened to 'pro-life' This is a literal spree.
No civilized society should do government sponsored murders. There are other ways to punish criminals.
The most people the federal government has executed in a single decade in the last century is nine people in the 1930s. Trump’s unprecedented killing spree will be conducted in 6 months.
Of all priorities for a lame duck *president,* this is creepy (never mind wrong).
realDonaldTrump DOJ what a proud legacy. Horrible. 1/20/21 cannot come soon enough
Typical hypocrisy of “prolife” Federalists Society
Are people ok with a murderer killing their loved one and doing nothing? Let these people take responsibility for the murderers and live with them! Problem solved!
Should’ve been a lot more.
Can we sneak tRump in there please?
Executions are handled by Governors!
Maybe Biden will listen to the pope and abolish the death penalty. Until then, it will continue.
I'll never understand how 'killing people to prove killing people is wrong' makes sense... it seems like the morbid equivalent of 'well, he started it'.
But, but, but, they’re pro-life aren’t they? How does that work with executions?
Good !!!
Then since trump has established this precedent, when he's convicted and jailed, sentence him for lethal injection
This is monstrous. If ever people doubted that he was murderous... he hides behind legality, but this is butchery.
The death administration
What kind of hateful mad men are these people who decide to carry these on?
Could you imagine killing someone that cut a baby out of a woman and killed her! Maybe some aroma therapy and a talk with a social worker?
It’s clearly the Christian thing to do.
Sick and hateful Trump/Barr.
I’m okay with that
This is horrific.
Another record of “the most” and a source of pride for realDonaldTrump
IvankaTrump I hear you are unabashedly pro-life. Care to take a stand on this?
They are the same people that say they are 'pro life' right? The same people that say 'God has plan' but then say the election was rigged right? Oh okay.
Such a hateful administration! Criminals! Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I’d be doling out mercy right now if I were them. As me, I’d have been doling it out right along.
This is what Barr is doing. He’s sick. Hope he pays.
This administration is trigger happy. Just trying to damage as many families as possible during the Trump terror reign
Yea, probably some real winners in that bunch, too. Guys who've exhausted all legal appeals of their heinous crimes. All lives don't matter if you took a life. 🤷♂️
These are individuals that were tried and convicted by a jury of their peers, and they’ve exhausted their appeals. How is it a problem that the lawful sentence is being carried out?
Fucked up
so much for AllLivesMatter
Finally an end to people that are evil and are dangerous to society. The whack job Liberals believe that they can be rehabilitated. They should take them into their own homes if they believe that crud.
Why worry about this? I worry about liberals letting felons out of prison, and I voted against trump.
Right to life
They're really trying to clear the old product out...
Disgusting.
Can we sub him in for someone on death row?
When they get to the trumpenfuhrer and family will it be televised? Asking for a friend
Capital punishment is 🤢🤮
I bet you all of them are either black or Hispanic, it’s as sordid and appealing as thinking it is Trump’s way of channeling his upset loss through the killing of inmates
A little off topic but when did rehabilitation get lost in the system and why is punishment a prison's main function when this “approach has created explosive growth in the prison population while having at most a modest effect on crime rates?”
One wonders why more prisoners must die. Aren’t the 258,000 on Trump’s reign enough deaths of Americans.
This, this, summarizes Barr and Trump: brutality for brutality’s sake.
So clearly, Bill Barr has not died of COVID-19, because here he is lame ducking his way to a record number of executions without addressing it with the incoming president who is against the death penalty. Bill Barr is, as we all know, a disgusting POS.
No, no, no. If A.G. Barr wants people to die then let him be the one to inject the person with deadly poison. Take responsibility for the decisions made by Barr
What a veritable scumbag.
He does not want this one talking but killing her before the trial seem cruel.
I thought Ms Barrett is pro-life? Not.
Yeah - Pro-Life team. They only care as long as the life is in the tummy.
DEFUND NPR!!
The only cruelty here is making them linger so long on Death Row. Save your angst and tears for the people who never seem to get acknowledged, the victims, their families and friends.
Not so many pro-lifers here...
Every life matters... except for that one, and that one, and I just don’t like that guy- so that one, too.
Hopefully to victims family get the closure they need. Millions of americans worried about food and rent and capital punishement and judges take priorty I guess.
Pro-life?
😵
Gotta get that full measure of cruelty in before it’s too late, eh, realDonaldTrump, IvankaTrump? Don’t want to be seen as weak, or empathetic? Well, I advise putting yourself in their places and rethinking. JustTransition
That's the legacy they want to leave us with? The note they want to end on?
Barr is going to lose his job, and every history book in the world will list him as another seller of his own soul for favors.
It's like they have a quota they need to reach before the end of his presidency. WTLF?
Some sick, depraved m_fkrs!
HerdImmunity and Executions is pro life?
Not surprised
They are literally killing as many people as possible on the way out.
It seems Barr wants to get his death peanalty killing done before the window of 'opportunity' closes. I don't think that is pro-life, is it? The rush to kill seems callous and craven. americamag
I’m curious how Barr the Catholic expects his conversation with St. Peter to go.
So they’re Black? Billy Boy wouldn’t be rushing to put white men to death.
Nice pro life stance. Are they still the party of Christian values?
sad.
How else would the trump administration seal the last days of his reign?
gop Party of cruelty
Amazing the amount of Anti -American trolls, troll the most fair and balance news source in tne USA.
Strange, almost as if Power corrupts certain People to a degree that killing Others becomes an enjoyable habit... Where have i seen that before...
Jerks
Barr will be disbarred in short order after January 20, 2021. Amen👍👍
Ok. Can’t wait for *Billy five fat fingers* to be gone from the justice department. He is disgraceful and disgusting! I hope someone there has kept receipts TheJusticeDept so if anything was done illegally we can send to jail!
Republicans do not care.
He must be held accountable for all of his crimes
Horrific.
Barr needs to be charged all the wrong doing this man has done to please Trump is criminal
Sooo... not super concerned with the sanctity of these particular lives?
Makes him feel powerful to kill with impunity.
The bloodthirst of these people is a source of constant shame for our country.
The evil of this administration knows no bounds. Barr will thrill at taking lives. May he be criminally prosecuted for his actions.
Crime knows no time off so neither should the punishment
All 3 men are Black.
Padding the COVID numbers!!? realDonaldTrump
I mean, the federal government doesn't usually execute people, period. The last federal execution before this year was 2003.
Biden should announce that he will begin looking at staying executions now, so that he can act on Jan 20th. Then, when Barr/Trump carry them out before then, their evil will be magnified for all the world to see.
If they deserve to die, they die.
Pro-life and Opus Dei and among his last Christian acts....executions. What an amoral hypocrite.
The cruelty is the point.
why is he so eager to end these lives? does his twisted sense of justice want to make sure they're killed before some 'bleeding heart liberal' pardons them? Truly republicunts have no sense of justice.
That’s the party of life for ya.
Psycho killer’s
250k wasn’t enough
The trump syndicate just can’t enough of the killing.
They’re despicable.
Can't wait until President Biden executes Bill Barr's career on January 20.
Nazis gonna nazi until the second they can’t
Barr should be required to attend and witness the executions. And to throw the switch.
nice
Trump can't help killing people
Maybe some state AG’s like mine, MassAGO can intervene?
Monsters. Vile, evil monsters.
Looks like Biden is taking responsibility for this and it's consequences before Inauguration Day. Nothing bad better happen. Then again, if anything bad does happen, it's Trump's fault is what they'll claim.
This administration has already killed over 250,000 Americans in the past 9 months!
This is “Pro-Life”
What is wrong with these people? How much HATE do they have?
The pro-life crowd in action!
Ha! So much for pro-life, eh?
Bloodlust of the death cult.
Imagine wanting that to be your legacy..
the country will be dis_Barred soon enough....
That’s the Pro Life Party for ya
So much for small governemnt. The conservatives are using the government to kill people removed from society
Very dumb take there by npr.
You mean murdering prisoners.
SCOTUS picks, executions, why not?! Welcome to the GOP, where rules are made up and justice does not matter.
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