{"id":3929,"date":"2020-12-01T19:12:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T19:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3929"},"modified":"2020-12-01T19:12:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T19:12:43","slug":"the-high-rate-of-executions-during-trumps-last-weeks-in-office-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3929","title":{"rendered":"The high rate of executions during Trump\u2019s last weeks in office, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;Trump is the first president in 17 years to reinstate federal executions&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;In addition to pushing through federal executions over the past five months,the Justice Department\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2020\/08\/05\/2020-15039\/manner-of-federal-executions\" target=\"_blank\">published a new rule<\/a>\u00a0to the Federal Register on Friday that would allow the use of other methods for capital punishment. The new regulation reintroduces the use of firing squads and electrocutions for federal executions in addition to lethal injections.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;only three people had been executed by the federal government in the past 50 years. Meanwhile, in less than five months, eight people have already been put to death by Trump\u2019s Justice Department, with five more executions scheduled to happen before Trump leaves office.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/21736993\/trump-federal-execution-december\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/21736993\/trump-federal-execution-december<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Trump is the first president in 17 years to reinstate federal executions&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to pushing through federal executions over the past five months, the Justice Department published a new rule to the Federal Register on Friday that would allow the use of other methods for capital punishment. The new regulation reintroduces the use of firing squads and electrocutions for federal executions in addition to lethal injections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;only three people had been executed by the federal government in the past 50 years. Meanwhile, in less than five months, eight people have already been put to death by Trump\u2019s Justice Department, with five more executions scheduled to happen before Trump leaves office.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1061,170],"class_list":["post-3929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-death-penalty","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3930,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions\/3930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}