TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 9, 2019

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blocked the Trump administration from restarting federal executions after a 16-year break, WREG reports. The justices denied the administration’s plea to undo a lower court ruling in favor of inmates who had been given execution dates starting this week. U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced over the summer that federal executions would resume using a single drug, pentobarbital, to put inmates to death. That plan was challenged for violating the Federal Death Penalty Act by some of the inmates scheduled for execution.