TRUMP ADMIN: “As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons, announcing plans for five starting Thursday [Dec. 10, 2020] and concluding just days before the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
If the five go off as planned, it will make 13 executions since July when the Republican administration resumed putting inmates to death after a 17-year hiatus and will cement Trump’s legacy as the most prolific execution president in over 130 years.”
-Michael Tarm and Michael Balsamo, “Trump ratchets up pace of executions before Biden inaugural,” abcnews.go.com, Dec. 7, 2020.