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District Court for the District of Columbia on December 24, because the new execution date was set while a stay of execution was in effect, in violation of the terms of federal execution regulations. On January 1, , a panel of the U.

District Court for the District of Maryland on December 29, Original sentencing order requires execution per Maryland procedures, while execution set for Indiana. Court says its lacks authority to modify the sentencing order. The Department of Justice filed an appeal in the U. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on December Stay vacated by the U. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on February 10, until February 16 to provide the court time to consider a claim Smith raised under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Supreme Court close to midnight Eastern time on February 11, Mike DeWine on December 18, , and execution rescheduled for December 6, Mike DeWine on December 18, , and execution rescheduled for February 15, Department of Corrections has no procedures in place to carry out executions by firing squad. Mike DeWine on December 18, , and execution rescheduled for April 17, District Court for the District of Nevada on June 28, with written order issued July 7, order appealed.

We owe it to the victims of these horrific crimes, and to the families left behind, to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.

The resumption comes as the federal prison has struggled to combat the coronavirus pandemic behind bars, including at least one death at USP Terre Haute, where they will take place.

The inmates who will be executed are: Danny Lee, who was convicted in Arkansas of killing a family of three, including an 8-year-old; Wesley Ira Purkey, of Kansas, who raped and murdered a year-old girl and killed an year-old woman; Dustin Lee Honken, who killed five people in Iowa, including two children; and Keith Dwayne Nelson, who kidnapped a year-old girl who was rollerblading in front of her Kansas home and raped her in a forest behind a church before strangling the young girl with a wire.

Three of the executions — for Lee, Purkley and Honken — are scheduled days apart beginning July Nelson's execution is scheduled for Aug. The Justice Department said additional executions will be set at a later date. Executions on the federal level have been rare and the government has put to death only three defendants since restoring the federal death penalty in — most recently in , when Louis Jones was executed for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a young female soldier.

In , following a botched state execution in Oklahoma, President Barack Obama directed the Justice Department to conduct a broad review of capital punishment and issues surrounding lethal injection drugs. The attorney general said last July that the Obama-era review had been completed, clearing the way for executions to resume. He approved a new procedure for lethal injections that replaces the three-drug combination previously used in federal executions with one drug, pentobarbital.

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