This is absolutely massive and the NYTimes is scared. I don't know how I missed this considering I skim that rag everyday.
They are spooked:
"Unlike in some of the final-hour decisions, the practical effect of the rule remains unclear. The Justice Department has not indicated that it plans to execute inmates by a manner other than lethal injection, which has been the only method of execution the federal government has used in decades"
" If the administration does so, along with two other executions already scheduled, it will have put 13 prisoners to death since July, marking one of the deadliest periods in the history of federal capital punishment since at least 1927, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons"
“It tells us more about how much the administration wants to kill prisoners than it does about any real correctional need,” he said.
This is absolutely massive and the NYTimes is scared. I don't know how I missed this considering I skim that rag everyday.
They are spooked:
"Unlike in some of the final-hour decisions, the practical effect of the rule remains unclear. The Justice Department has not indicated that it plans to execute inmates by a manner other than lethal injection, which has been the only method of execution the federal government has used in decades"
" If the administration does so, along with two other executions already scheduled, it will have put 13 prisoners to death since July, marking one of the deadliest periods in the history of federal capital punishment since at least 1927, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons"
“It tells us more about how much the administration wants to kill prisoners than it does about any real correctional need,” he said.