Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche today streamlined how the federal government kills convicts.
No modern president executed as many prisoners as Donald Trump did during his first term. The lethal injections he approved then are back. Blanche even okayed death by firing squad. To handle the presumed influx of executions, the Bureau of Prisons has been told to build a new execution facility, and Blanche has authorized prosecutors to seek death in nine more cases.
None of this is for the three people on federal death row tonight. It’s for the nine Blanche just authorized and whoever the Department of Justice comes for next. To further tip the scales, Blanche changed the mercy rule. The last plea for mercy now comes only after the final appeal has run out, when there’s nothing left to plead to. Call your representatives through 5 Calls and Resistbot and demand Congress block funding for the new federal execution facility before it gets built.
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