What's the status of the US 死刑?

The first 連邦の 資本/首都 事例/患者 tried under 大統領 Joe Biden ended with a 分裂(する) の中で 賠審員s that means the life of an Islamic 極端論者 who killed eight people in a New York City will be spared. It (機の)カム at a rare 連邦の 死刑 裁判,公判 in a 明言する/公表する without the 死刑.

That Biden's 司法(官) Department continued to 追求する the 死刑 for Sayfullo Saipov, who used a トラックで運ぶ to mow 負かす/撃墜する 歩行者s and cyclists on a popular bike path, was a surprise to many given Biden's 対立 to 死刑 and his 2016 (選挙などの)運動をする 誓約(する) to end it federally.

The 陪審/陪審員団's 失敗 to reach a 全員一致の 決定/判定勝ち(する) means Saipov receives an (a)自動的な/(n)自動拳銃 宣告,判決 of life in 刑務所,拘置所 without the 可能性 of 仮釈放(する) for the October 2017 attack.

The 初期の 決定/判定勝ち(する) to 捜し出す the 死刑 (機の)カム under then-大統領 Donald Trump, who tweeted a day after the attack that Saipov "SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!"

But 司法長官 Merrick Garland, under Biden, gave his 検察官,検事s the green light to continue 追求するing it even though Garland has 課すd a 支払い猶予/一時停止 that means no 連邦の 死刑執行s are likely to happen anytime soon.

The 連邦の 死刑 wasn't a high-profile 問題/発行する until Trump 再開するd them in 2020 after a 17-year hiatus. With 13 inmates put to death in his last months in office, Trump oversaw more 連邦の 死刑執行s than any 大統領,/社長 in more than 120 years.

Here is a look at the 現在の status of the 連邦の 死刑 under Biden:

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HOW WAS THERE A CAPTIAL CASE IN A STATE WITHOUT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT?

Saipov's 事例/患者 was a rare instance of the 司法省 捜し出すing the 死刑 in one of the more than 20 明言する/公表するs that does not have 死刑, 製図/抽選 on U.S. 法律s that 許す 死刑執行s by 連邦の 当局 for exceptional 罪,犯罪s.

The 死刑 was 効果的に 廃止するd in New York by 2007, after years of 成果/努力s to 回復する it, によれば the Death 刑罰,罰則 (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) 中心. 歴史的に, over 1,000 people have been 遂行する/発効させるd in New York. The last 死刑執行 in the 明言する/公表する was in 1963.

連邦の 陪審/陪審員団s in Brooklyn twice gave a death 宣告,判決 to a man who 殺人d two New York police 探偵,刑事s, once in 2007 and again in 2013, but both 宣告,判決s were vacated on 控訴,上告. A 裁判官 最終的に 支配するd the 殺し屋 was intellectually 無能にするd.

Boston マラソン 爆撃機 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was 宣告,判決d to death at a 2015 連邦の 裁判,公判 in Massachusetts, which 廃止するd 死刑 in 1984. The 現在の 司法(官) Department has continued to fight Tsarnaev's 企て,努力,提案 to have his death 宣告,判決 投げ上げる/ボディチェックするd out.

If Tsarnaev is ever 遂行する/発効させるd, it would likely be at a death 議会 at a U.S. 刑務所,拘置所 in Terre Haute, Indiana, where 連邦の (刑務所の)死刑囚棟 is 位置を示すd and where the 13 囚人s 遂行する/発効させるd under Trump received lethal 注射s of pentobarbital.

WHAT HAS BIDEN DONE TO DA TE?

Biden himself has not 問題/発行するd any formal 指示的なs or 施政方針演説s on 連邦の 死刑. During the 2016 (選挙などの)運動をする, he 公約するd both to end the 連邦の 死刑 for good, and to work at ending it in all 明言する/公表するs. He has been silent on both 連邦の and 明言する/公表する 死刑s.

The 欠如(する) of (疑いを)晴らす steps toward 廃止するing the 死刑 or (疑いを)晴らすing 連邦の (刑務所の)死刑囚棟 using (n)役員/(a)執行力のある 当局 would leave to the door open to a 未来 プロの/賛成の-死刑 大統領,/社長 once against 再開するing 死刑執行s by the U.S. 政府.

Under Garland , the 司法(官) Department hasn't sought the 死刑 in any new 事例/患者s. It also has 孤立した requests for 死刑 sought by 事前の 行政s against more than two dozen 被告s.

The 司法(官) Department 発表するd in January that it would not 捜し出す the 死刑 for Patrick Crusius, who is (刑事)被告 of fatally 狙撃 nearly two dozen people in a 人種差別主義者 attack at a West Texas Walmart in 2019. Crusius later pleaded 有罪の to 連邦の hate 罪,犯罪 and 武器s 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金s.

While many have 賞賛するd the White House for not wanting to 干渉する in the 司法(官) Department´s day-to-day 決定/判定勝ち(する) making, 死刑 対抗者s say that shouldn't stop it from 設立するing an 全体にわたる 政策 on 死刑執行s.

WHAT HAS THE WHITE HOUSE SAID?

In an email to The Associated 圧力(をかける) earlier this year, the White House said the 大統領,/社長 "has long talked about his 関心s about how the 死刑 is 適用するd and whether it is 一貫した with the values 根底となる to our sense of 司法(官) and fairness." It 追加するd Biden supports the 弁護士/代理人/検事 general´s 決定/判定勝ち(する) to 課す the 支払い猶予/一時停止.

"The DOJ makes 決定/判定勝ち(する)s about 起訴s 独立して. It would be 不適切な for us to 重さを計る in on 明確な/細部 事例/患者s 進行中で, but we believe it´s important for 犠牲者s, 生存者s, and their families to get 司法(官)," it said.

WHAT ABOUT THE MORITORIUM?

Garland 発表するd a 停止(させる) to 連邦の 死刑執行s in 2021, meaning the 司法(官) Department won't 問題/発行する orders to 遂行する/発効させる anyone, at least while the 支払い猶予/一時停止 is in place.

But the 支払い猶予/一時停止 doesn't stop the department from 追求するing the 死刑 and it doesn't stop U.S. 検察官,検事s from continuing to fight 合法的な 活動/戦闘 by (刑務所の)死刑囚棟 inmates trying to 避ける 死刑執行.

The Garland 支払い猶予/一時停止 is 類似の to one ordered in 2014 by 大統領 Barack Obama に引き続いて a botched 明言する/公表する 死刑執行 in Oklahoma. That Obama didn't take more far-reaching 活動/戦闘 on the 連邦の 死刑執行s enabled Trump to 再開する them.

Trump 公式の/役人s argued that carrying out the 死刑執行s was a 事柄 of 従うing with U.S. 法律 and bringing long 延期するd 司法(官) to 犠牲者s' 親族s.

WHAT DOES THE REVIEW DURING THE MORATORIUM ENTAIL?

The 司法(官) Department hasn't 申し込む/申し出d 詳細(に述べる)s, 含むing end goals or 時刻表/予定表s.

Garland has said the review would look at 議定書s put in place by Trump´s 弁護士/代理人/検事 general, William Barr. 弁護士/代理人/検事s for (刑務所の)死刑囚棟 inmates 非難するd the 議定書s, 説 they 許すd for hurried 死刑執行s.

What the review does not entail is an 査定/評価 of whether the 連邦の 死刑 should be scrapped 完全に.

WHAT ABOUT THE PROTOCOLS?

In September, the 司法(官) Department 問題/発行するd a public notice 捜し出すing comment about changes to Trump 議定書s, 含むing one permitting 死刑執行 methods other than lethal 注射, such as 解雇する/砲火/射撃ing squads.

In a 最近の letter, Democratic U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Sen. 刑事 Durbin 勧めるd the 司法(官) Department to quickly 無効にする all the Trump 議定書s, 含むing one 権限を与えるing the use of 明言する/公表する 施設s and staff in 連邦の 死刑執行s, calling the orders "irreparably tainted."

Another 権限を与えるs the use of a 選び出す/独身 麻薬, pentobarbital, to 取って代わる a three-麻薬 cocktail (軍隊を)展開する,配備するd in the 2000s - the last time 連邦の 死刑執行s were carried out 事前の to Trump.

Most critics of the 死刑 答える/応じるd to the 支払い猶予/一時停止 and review with faint 賞賛する - calling it a first step. Any changes in 議定書 could easily be undone by a 未来 行政.

WHAT DO DEATH PENALTY OPPONENTS WANT DONE?

They say Biden should draw on his 大統領の 力/強力にするs to 減刑する/通勤する all 連邦の death 宣告,判決s to life in 刑務所,拘置所, which would 妨げる those death 宣告,判決s from ever 存在 回復するd.

There's also 提案するd 法律制定 to strike the 死刑 from U.S. 法令s and resentence the more than 40 inmates still on 連邦の (刑務所の)死刑囚棟 to life. Biden has given no 指示,表示する物 he supports any such 対策.

The 問題/発行する is a 極度の慎重さを要する one for Biden. In 1994, then-Sen. Biden shepherded 法律制定 through 議会 that 追加するd 60 付加 罪,犯罪s for which so meone could be 遂行する/発効させるd. Some inmates 遂行する/発効させるd under Trump were 宣告,判決d under those 準備/条項s.

死刑 has been a hot-button 問題/発行する 政治上 in the past but is いっそう少なく so now after support for 死刑 has fallen in 最近の 10年間s. 支援 for it 現在/一般に hovers around 50%, によれば most 投票s.

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