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| The Supreme Court building in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) |
The Supreme Court will not consider a challenge to new federal death penalty protocols proposed by the Justice Department, which could clear the way for the government to resume executions as early as July for the first time since 2003.
The court, without comment, declined Monday to take up the lawsuit filed by four death row inmates. As is customary, it gave no reason. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor indicated that they would have accepted the case. (Washington Post)
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Ruth Friedman, director of the Federal Capital Habeas Project, is an attorney for Lee. She says there's a myth that the federal death penalty is the "gold standard" of capital punishment systems.
"The federal death penalty is arbitrary, racially-biased, and rife with poor lawyering and junk science. Problems unique to the federal death penalty include over-federalization of traditionally state crimes and restricted judicial review," Friedman said in a statement Monday. (npr)
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"The American people, acting through Congress and Presidents of both political parties, have long instructed that defendants convicted of the most heinous crimes should be subject to a sentence of death," Attorney General William Barr said in a statement earlier this month. "The four murderers whose executions are scheduled today have received full and fair proceedings under our Constitution and laws. 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." (Fox News)
Although some Christians consider an antiabortion stance as prolife, it is not the only prolife issue. Prolife Christians include ethical positions regarding capital punishment, terminal illnesses, euthanasia, low risk of death environments, and access to life-saving treatment.
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