The first federal execution since 2003 is schedule for July 13, 2020, with three additional executions following just days later. 1/4
U.S. Attorney General William Barr has scheduled these executions despite pending litigation in these cases and serious concerns about the legality, constitutionality, and humaneness of federal execution protocols. 2/4
Join @acslaw on July 8 at 1:30 pm eastern for a discussion of the federal death penalty-- the reasons for the nearly 20 yr moratorium on federal executions... 3/4
...and the concerns over this quick succession of executions planned for this summer in the face of continued criticism that the death penalty is arbitrary, racially biased, and plagued by poor, under-resourced lawyering. 4/4
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