Thread by @ScottHech

"After 17 years w/o a federal execution, the Government has executed 12 people since July." Last night Dustin Higgs became the 13th. "The Federal Government executed more than 3 times as many people in the last 6 months than it had in the previous 6 decades." Justice Sotomayor:

Sotomayor names them: "Daniel Lee, Wesley Purkey, Dustin Honken, Lezmond Mitchell, Keith Nelson, William LeCroy Jr., Christopher Vialva, Orlando Hall, Brandon Bernard, Alfred Bourgeois, Lisa Montgomery, Corey
Johnson. [Just last night] Dustin Higgs became the thirteenth." Justin:

"This unprecedented rush of federal executions has predictably given rise to many difficult legal disputes. Against this backdrop of deep legal uncertainty, the DOJ
did not tread carefully. It scheduled five executions; eight would follow in the months to come."

"This rapid pace required those facing execution to fast-track challenges to sentences. Rather than permit an orderly resolution of these suits, the Government sought emergency relief to proceed before courts had meaningful opportunities to determine if executions were legal."

"Throughout this expedited spree of executions, this Court
has consistently rejected credible claims for relief. The Court has even intervened to lift stays of execution that lower courts put in place, ensuring those prisoners’ challenges would never receive a meaningful airing."

"The Court made these weighty decisions in response to emergency applications, with little opportunity for proper briefing and consideration, often in just a few short days or even hours. Very few of these decisions offered any public explanation for their rationale."

"THIS IS NOT JUSTICE. After waiting almost 2 decades to resume federal executions, the Government should have proceeded w/ some measure of restraint to ensure it did so lawfully. When it did not this Court should have. It has not. Bc the Court continues this pattern, I dissent."