TRUMP ADMIN: “The Justice Department is proceeding with plans for more federal executions in the closing days of President Trump’s administration, including two scheduled shortly before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden…
If the Justice Department plan moves forward, 13 people will have faced death by lethal injection during the Trump administration. Legal experts who follow capital punishment said that would be the most since the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who served 12 years in office before his death in 1945…
[T]here had been no ‘lame-duck’ federal executions in more than a century.”
-Carrie Johnson, “U.S. To Continue Executions Through Transition In Break With Precedent,” npr.org, Nov. 24, 2020