Justice Department schedules first federal executions since 2003 for convicted child murderers
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter |
| June 15, 2020 07:36 PM
Attorney General William Barr directed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions of four federal death row inmates convicted of murdering children.
Barr, who last summer announced new guidelines for resuming capital punishment under federal law following a hiatus stemming back to 2003, said Monday that the four convicted child murderers — two of whom had also raped their victims — will receive the death penalty in July and August. They will be the first federal executions in nearly two decades.
“The American people, acting through Congress and Presidents of both political parties, have long instructed that defendants convicted of the most heinous crimes should be subject to a sentence of death,†Barr said in a press release. “The four murderers whose executions are scheduled today have received full and fair proceedings under our Constitution and laws. We owe it to the victims of these horrific crimes, and to the families left behind, to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.â€
The four death-sentenced inmates are Daniel Lee, Wesley Purkey, Dustin Honken, and Keith Nelson.
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