Trump restores federal capital punishment | …

Contrary to growing world opinion against the death penalty, the US President's government, Donald Trump, has announced that executions of people convicted of federal offenses would be reinstated from next December, which were suspended for 16 years.

The Attorney General (Minister of Justice), William Barr, justified the relocation of the death penalty by the need to "bring justice to the victims of the most horrendous crimes".
Barr communicated his decision to the prison office and asked his director, Hugh Hurwitz, to schedule executions of five prisoners sentenced to death for murder, as well as for crimes of torture and rape of children and the elderly.

The last federal execution took place in 2003 and there are currently 62 prisoners sentenced to death by the federal government, according to the Center for Information on the Death Penalty (DPIC). "Under the governments of both parties, the Justice Ministry has asked for the death penalty for the worst criminals, including these five murderers, all of whom have been sentenced by a jury at the end of a lawsuit. complete and fair, "Barr said in a statement. public The next execution, with pentobarbital injection, is scheduled for December 9 at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

The first voice against this measure was raised in California, whose governor, Gavin Newson, expressed his strong rejection. "The Trump administration has chosen to badociate Kim Jong-a from North Korea, King Salman of Saudi Arabia and the (Vladimir) Putin government to the execution of its citizens," said Newson in a statement. "The intentional killing of another person is a mistake and our death penalty system has been, in all respects, a failure," he said. "On pain of death, he has discriminated against mentally ill defendants and African Americans who can not afford expensive legal representation," he added.

The sum of the rejections of the death penalty finally pushed 21 of the 50 states of the country to order their abolition, finally New Hampshire. Since 1973, 166 prisoners sentenced to death throughout the country, including five in California, have been released after trial errors were proven.

Trump is a staunch supporter of the death penalty for many years before he arrived at the White House. In 1989 he published one-page ads in various New York newspapers in which he urged the government to "reinstate the death penalty," as a result of a rape committed in Central Park.
"If the punishment is severe, attacks on innocent people will stop," he said.

Robert Dunham, executive director of the Information Center on the Non-Profit Death Penalty, said he was worried about the rush of the resumption of executions process. "The federal government has not carried out any executions for 15 years and this raises serious questions about the ability to carry out executions," he said.