This piece was originally published on December 1. "There are crimes that are so terrible, so heinous that we as a society, only by carrying out executions, demonstrate how serious we think those crimes really are," he told local media.Editor’s note: Brandon Bernard was executed by lethal injection on Thursday for crimes he committed at age 18. He has said he wants to "ensure" that the 21 people on Arizona's death row whose appeals have been exhausted are executed before his term ends in 2023. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican, notified the state Supreme Court that he will seek execution warrants in two cases, which would be the first executions in the state since 2014. Texas, which conducted the last one in July, plans to resume executions on May 19, and it has four others scheduled this year.ĭunham said other states, "emboldened by what the Trump administration did," appear ready to hold executions. On the state level, executions have been delayed during the pandemic.
A 2019 Gallup poll found that for the first time, most Americans agreed that life in prison with no parole is a better punishment than the death penalty.
"I think it is unquestionable that people who are innocent have been executed since the death penalty was reinstated back in the 1970s," he said.īiden campaigned on passing legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level. Research shows that for about every eight people executed in the U.S., one person on death row has been exonerated and released, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the nonpartisan Death Penalty Information Center. The potential failures and flaws in the criminal justice system during trials and sentencing and in the execution process itself are a "perfect storm" that is only compounded by underlying racial factors and a "rush to execute because a drug is going to expire," said Sarat, the author of "Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty." While the testing could not conclusively rule out Lee, the genetic profile is being run through a national criminal database in the hope that a match can be confirmed, the lawyers said. In Lee's case, the handle of a bloodied wooden club and a white shirt wrapped around the weapon had never been tested before, lawyers with the Innocence Project and the American Civil Liberties Union told The Washington Post.
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