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Capital punishment by the United States federal government
The president has the opportunity to prevent another federal execution spree, but the window to act may be narrow.
The Bureau of Prisons admitted that after a reporter informed officials about their diagnosis, it didnt contact any other media witnesses or conduct any contact tracing.
Out of 9 Bureau of Prisons staffers who got sick after working an execution, the agency only conducted contact tracing for one, citing confidentiality reasons.
Since resuming federal executions, COVID-19 cases have exploded in the prison where federal death row is located.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The U.S. government is still executing people, despite objections that such events spread the coronavirus and strip prisoners of their right to counsel.
Christopher Vialva, who was convicted for killing a couple as a teen in 1999, is the seventh federal execution this summer when Trump revived the punishment.
The execution came over the objection of the victims family.
A U.S. district judge on Monday delayed what was to be the first federal execution in nearly two decades. The Trump administration will likely appeal the ruling.
The justices ruled against the Trump administration, which had asked the court to throw out an injunction temporarily halting the executions of four men on death row.
The men said that letting the Justice Department carry out their executions would allow it to implement protocols that a lower court had considered unlawful.
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