[OC] U.S. Federal executions in the last 30 years

Posted by solo_dol0

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  1. In light of President Biden’s recent pardons, it’s interesting that during President Trump’s last year (2020) he oversaw more federal executions in a single year than the preceding decades combined. Just a PowerPoint chart.

    Source: [Death Penalty Information Center](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/database/executions)

  2. This would explain why I so rarely heard about federal executions. I knew they existed hypothetically but they just hadn’t happened recently until then.

  3. Trump and Barr really went for it at the end of the administration.

  6. This chart would be better if it specified which administration, since a year can straddle two (as in 2021).

  9. There’s no way this number of executions justifies the legal, penal and medical infrastructure involved in maintaining the federal death penalty. 

  10. Interesting. My understanding is that the hiatus on federal execution stemmed primarily from the recent ability of inmates to challenge execution protocols, meanwhile pharmaceutical companies were trying to save face, and EU intentionally banned the export of related pharmaceuticals. With some of those issues alleviated, those executed were primarily child rapist murderers, most with several counts, some white supremacists. I’m all for deciding whether we want to be a society that uses capital punishment… but I’m not going to go out of my way to mischaracterize the complex situation or defend child rapists and big pharma pr.

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