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U.S.A orders Executions : since 2003 ! - ketchim - 07-25-2019
The US federal government is to resume executing death-row inmates after a 16-year hiatus
the justice department has announced.
Attorney General William Barr said in a statement he had directed the Bureau of Prisons (BOP)
to schedule the executions of five inmates.
U.S.A orders Executions : since 2003 ! - ketchim - 07-25-2019
There are 2,673 inmates on death row in the US
California has the most prisoners on death row - 733 -
but has carried out only 13 executions since 1976
The annual number of death sentences fell by 85% between 1998 and 2018
- from 295 to 43