The five conservative Catholics on the Supreme Court are certainly not letting the Catechism of the Catholic Church stand in the way of greenlighting the Trump administration's rusch to execute as many as possible before Joe Biden - a death penalty opponent - takes the reins. - GWC
20-927 United States v. Higgs (01/15/2021)JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, dissenting.
After seventeen years without a single federal execution,
the Government has executed twelve people since July.
They are Daniel Lee, Wesley Purkey, Dustin Honken,
Lezmond Mitchell, Keith Nelson, William LeCroy Jr.,
Christopher Vialva, Orlando Hall, Brandon Bernard, Alfred
Bourgeois, Lisa Montgomery, and, just last night, Corey
Johnson. Today, Dustin Higgs will become the thirteenth.
To put that in historical context, the Federal Government
will have executed more than three times as many people
in the last six months than it had in the previous six decades.
This unprecedented rush of federal executions has predictably given rise to many difficult legal disputes. One
source of confusion has been the Federal Death Penalty Act
(FDPA), which Congress enacted in 1994 to guide the imposition and implementation of federal death sentences. Pub.
L. No. 103–322, Tit. VI, §60002(a), 108 Stat. 1959 (codified
as amended at 18 U. S. C. §3591 et seq.). Prior to last July,
the Federal Government had executed just three people
since the enactment of the FDPA, two in 2001 and one in
2003. Many questions about the FDPA remain unanswered
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