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The Supreme Court denied a convicted murderer’s Thursday appeal, allowing the execution to move forward just before midnight. It was the eighth federal execution since Attorney General William Barr greenlighted the punishment this summer and the first of three scheduled for convicted killers during the transition period for President-elect Joe Biden, who now opposes capital punishment.
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U.S. Attorney General William Barr unveiled new guidelines for resuming capital punishment under federal law following a hiatus stemming back to 2003. In response to Barr’s announcement last year, then-candidate Biden tweeted, “Because we can’t ensure that we get these cases right every time, we must eliminate the death penalty.” Biden’s campaign website stated that “Biden will work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level, and incentivize states to follow the federal government’s example.
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Biden reversed his decades-long position during the Democratic primary while under pressure from his liberal base and his rivals, releasing a criminal justice reform plan repudiating his signature 1994 crime bill and calling for the “elimination” of the death penalty nationwide.