Federal Executions Set To Resume After 17 Years With 3 Deaths Scheduled Soon
Authorities are preparing the federal death chamber in Terre Haute, Ind., for three executions next week. They'll be the first federal executions in a long time.
by Carrie Johnson
Jul 10, 2020
2 minutes
Capital punishment is on the decline in the United States, with only 13 new death sentences and seven executions so far this year.
But the U.S. Justice Department is moving in the other direction. Authorities are preparing the death chamber in Terre Haute, Ind., for the first federal executions in 17 years, starting Monday.
Death row inmates, their spiritual advisers and even one set of
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