Attorney General William Barr announced Thursday that the Federal government would resume executions.
The U.S. Department of justice announced the names of the first five inmates executed. Among them, convicted for murder, torture, rape of children and the elderly.
To be executed:
- Daniel Lewis Lee is a supporter of white supremacy that robbed and killed a family of three, and then put them on the heads with plastic bags, tied stones to the bodies and threw them into the Bay Bayo in Arkansas in 1999.
- Lesmond Mitchell, who was sentenced in 2003 for stabbing 63-year-old woman, forced her granddaughter to sit beside her dead body, and then slit her throat and I smashed her head in with a rock.
- Wesley Ira Purke, who was sentenced in 2003 for the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl. He killed a teen dismembered, burned and thrown into the gutter the remains. In addition, it is hanging for murder of 80-year-old woman with polio that Purce scored with a hammer.
- Alfred Bourgeois, who was sentenced in 2004 for torture, sexual harassment and murder of the daughter.
- Dustin Lee Honken who shot and killed five people, including a single mother and her 10 — and 6-year-old daughters.
All executions will spend in prison Terre Haute, Indiana, from December 2019 and January 2020. Barr issued a decree about the new way of executing prisoners instead of lethal injection cocktail will be sentenced to enter the phenobarbital.
Pending executions sentenced — 5 of 61 Federal inmate assigned punishment. The last two sentence a mass murderer in the Church of Charleston to Dylan Ruth (in 2017) and the Boston terrorist Tsarnaev (in 2015).
The last person executed by the Federal government was Louis Jones Jr., a veteran of the Gulf war in 2003-m to year. He raped and killed 19-year-old female soldier.
From 1988 to 2018 were sentenced to death 78 Federal prisoners. Only three were executed. The death penalty at the Federal level, legal, but is rarely used.
Amnesty International has issued a statement condemning this decision of the administration trump.
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Amnesty International USA Executive Director @MargaretLHuang: “The Trump administration»s decision to restart executions after a federal 16-year hiatus is outrageous. It is the latest indication of this administration»s disdain for human rights.»
— Amnesty International (@amnestyusa) July 25, 2019
«This is another proof that the administration despises human rights», — said the Executive Director of Amnesty International USA Margaret Huang.
There’s enough violence in the world. The government shouldn’t add to it. When I am president, we will abolish the death penalty. https://t.co/otUrgpYQWK
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 25, 2019
At least two presidential candidates have already commented on the administration’s decision to trump.
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said, if elected, he will repeal the death penalty.
«The world has enough violence. The government should not participate in it».
«Let me be clear: the death penalty is immoral and deeply wrong.» — wrote the Senator from California Kamala Harris — Too many innocent people executed. We need a national moratorium on the death penalty and not return to it.»
This morning, the Department of Justice announced they would resume capital punishment. Let me be clear: capital punishment is immoral and deeply flawed. Too many innocent people have been put to death. We need a national moratorium on the death penalty, not a resurrection.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 25, 2019
