Attorney General Cites ‘Troubling Number of Exonerations’ for Halting Federal Executions

A federal halt to the death penalty has been handed down by Attorney General Merrick Garland. The Bureau of Prisons was ordered to stop executions by lethal injection while the method undergoes further review. [adsanity_group num_ads=”1″ align=”aligncenter” num_columns=”1″ group_ids=”2381″/] William Barr recently resumed the death penalty in 2019 under the Trump administration, after a roughly twenty-year pause in federal executions. Barr cited the need to continue carrying out sentences the justice system had prescribed to the most serious offenders of the most heinous crimes. Garland, however, stated in a directive to senior officials, that new considerations have been introduced into


