The Justice Department amended a rule that previously restricted federal death sentences to be carried out by means of lethal injection, to broader methods as “prescribed” by the sentencing state.
The Federal Register was altered on Friday to allow the U.S. government to perform death sentences for federal prisoners by lethal injection, or “any other manner prescribed by the law of the state in which the sentence was imposed.”
Six states including California, Arizona, and Missouri, currently condemn prisoners to death by poisonous gas chambers. Execution by electrocution is allowed in Florida, Kentucky, and seven other states. Hanging is another method used in Delaware and Washington, while death by firing squad is still condoned in Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Utah.
The change goes into effect on Dec. 24, with five inmates scheduled to death prior to Inauguration Day. Attorney General William Barr plans to execute prisoners convicted of “staggeringly brutal murders” and bring “justice to victims of the most horrific crimes,” since reinstating the practice in 2019 after a 17-year moratorium.
Lisa Montgomery, the only female federal death row inmate, is the first prisoner scheduled to be executed after the rule goes into effect. She was convicted of murdering eight-month pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett in 2004 and hacking the unborn child from her womb to reportedly raise as her own. The infant was discovered alive by authorities when she was arrested a day later.
Montgomery will be executed on Jan. 12 by lethal injection, though sentencing state Missouri also allows the option of lethal gas. Two days later, Corey Johnson, who was convicted of murdering seven people in a 1992 drug-related spree, will also be put to death by lethal injection. Although Virginia, where the crime occurred, still sanctions electrocution.
Dustin John Higgs’ execution is slated for Jan. 15, though without a specified method of death. He committed first-degree execution-style murder of three women in Maryland, where the death penalty is no longer a state punishment.
It is unclear if Barr is seeking to use an alternative method of death on Higgs, or whether he will attempt to switch Montgomery, or Johnson’s execution manner to the state accepted substitutes.
Great but did they change the time frame in which they execute a person? They sit on death row for years before they execute a person.
This all nice but how about investigating the elections Bill Barr
About time! Why did we ever stop using other means. “Sparky, hangman’s tree, and do you want a blindfold?” were fine about 120 years ago. We still have the crimes, in fact worse ones, so…
No electrocutions or gas chambers. I don’t care what the inmate did. We should not allow ourselves to be animals like the inmates were!!!
No matter how they are put to death it will never ease the pain of the victims family. As far as I am concerned any method is warranted as an offset to an atrocious act. Make the appeal process last no longer than a year.
Ellen, I’d like to hear what you would have to say if one of “THESE ANIMALS” killed or raped one of your loved ones…
LET THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME..!
Eye for an eye hun…if you do not want to be killed…do not murder anyone…the murderer brings the death penalty upon their own self
capital punishment for murder is justice.
Hang em high or guiliteien
YES…!
Really? Ya mean they will get to execute democrats without a trial?
Murderers should be executed in the exact same manner in which they killed their victims.
That way, justice is truly served.
Ellen, this the police calling. Someone just hacked your granddaughters head off. What would you like us to do with him?
Anyone remember Obama crying about the ‘botched’ execution of a Black Death penalty murderer? Right, tears for thugs, typical Barry. Anyhoo, this man was given lethal injection. The usual deal is: first start an IV line, then a deep sleep injection, then the lethal drug. The staff had trouble finding a good line. The inmate was given a big dose of pain medicine while the staff worked. It was about 2 hours in all. 99% of the time, he was out cold. Some witnesses saw him twitch and groan. Too freaking bad. His victim was a 17 year old white high school girl who was a ‘band nerd’ and just a simple overweight student.
She refused to give this POS her purse. He took her out in the woods, forced her to dig a hole, shot her, buried her alive and then he and his buddies laughed at the sounds she was making as she suffocated. And we’re supposed to be sad this child killer had to wait??
I always like to mention Gary Gilmore and ‘The Executioner’s Song’. Gary was a criminal his entire life and a multiple killer. He was found guilty and sentenced to die. He refused to appeal and asked for his execution because he was guilty and if he ever got out, he would kill again. He chose the firing squad. That morning, as he was waiting to go out and finally got the signal, he said, ‘Let’s do it’. Rumor has that’s how Nike was inspired to choose ‘Just do it’ as their tag line. For anyone who doesn’t know about firing squads, the squad stands behind a partition with spaces to see and aim. If the squad numbers, for example 6, 5 live rounds and one dummy or blank round are put out for the squad. No one knows which person has the blank. The prisoner stands with or without a blindfold. The squad: ready. aim. fire. Each shot is directed to the prisoner’s mid-body area.
it’s effective, fast, and if anyone in the squad feels guilty, they can make the case that they shot the blank.
The bottom line is,”YOU’RE DEAD”. Cut and dry ,who cares????
This person is “forever” removed from society. That’s another animal we don’t have to cloth,feed, give medical care, and hire people to take care of “all” these animals.
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When will Hillary Clinton stand in front of a firing squad for the treason she committed selling our uranium to Russia. That is treason.