1,000-Plus Religious Leaders Ask Attorney General Barr to Focus on Life, Not Federal Executions – By Rena Paul (Law and Crime) / July 8 2020
In a Tuesday statement, more than 1,000 diverse religious leaders called upon President Donald Trump and United States Attorney General William P. Barr to “focus[ ] on protecting and preserving life,” not executing people.
The 51-page statement, with an alphabetical list of inter-faith leader-signatories from across the country, stated simply, “As our country grapples with the COVID 19 pandemic, an economic crisis, and systemic racism in the criminal legal system, we should be focused on protecting and preserving life, not carrying out executions.”
The statement followed Barr’s June 2020 announcement that he had directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to schedule the first federal executions since 2003. Only three federal executions have been carried out since 1963, including the 2001 execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
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