The US rushed to execute 13 before Jo Biden became president
January 2021
Shock was widely expressed following the execution of 13 people in the final days of the Trump presidency and just days before president elect Jo Biden takes office on 20th. President Trump has been the most prolific executioner in more than a century. There has been a gradual drift away from this use of the penalty in the USA – the only American nation still to have the penalty – and the executions are out of step with trends and attitudes among the US public. These executions took place in federal prisons. It has been criticised as vindictive.
The Attorney General, William Barr said:
[…] We owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system. US Department of Justice statement when federal executions were resumed after two decades. July 2019 [accessed 16 January 2021]
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It says a lot about the Trump administration that they used their last days in office to kill people.
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