Supreme Court denies Trump request to immediately resume federal executions
By Harper Neidig - 12/06/19 07:08 PM EST
The Supreme Court on Friday denied the Trump administration's request to immediately lift a block on federal executions so that it could move forward with a death sentence that was scheduled to be carried out on Monday.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) had filed an emergency request with the court to vacate a stay of all four planned federal executions. A fifth execution has also been delayed for unrelated reasons.
The first was scheduled for Monday and the others were set to be carried out through December and January.
A federal judge last month ordered a hold on federal executions while a separate legal challenge over the DOJ's new lethal injection protocol plays out before an appeals court.
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