The US Justice Department has scheduled the executions of four federal inmates for the first time since 2003 after months of legal challenges.
Attorney General William Barr has ordered the executions to begin in July of the men on death-row, who were all convicted of killing children.
The inmates had accused the government of trying to hasten their execution and of not following proper methods.
Mr Barr on Monday said they had “received full and fair proceedings”.
“미국 의회는 의회와 두 정당의 대통령을 통해 행동하면서 가장 끔찍한 범죄로 유죄 판결을받은 피고인은 사형 선고를 받아야한다고 오랫동안 지시 해 왔습니다.” 바 씨는 말했다.
"우리는 이러한 끔찍한 범죄의 피해자들과 남겨진 가족들에게 우리의 사법 시스템에 의해 부과 된 문장을 전달할 책임이 있습니다."
Last July, Mr Barr directed the Bureau of Prisons to revise the government’s execution protocol to use a single drug in order to resume the federal death penalty.
Executions were scheduled for last December, but the inmates issued legal challenges.
After an initial injunction last year from a district judge that stayed the scheduled executions, an appeals court reversed the order in April, ending a nearly two-decade hiatus on capital punishment for federal inmates.
처형에 처한 첫 번째 수감자는 90 년대에 세 명의 가족을 살해 한 백인 우월 주의자 그룹의 전 멤버 인 Daniel Lee입니다. 치명적인 주사에 의한 그의 처형은 13 월 XNUMX 일로 예정되어있다.
웨슬리 퍼키, 더스틴 혼켄, 키이스 넬슨 등 다른 세 남자는 XNUMX 월과 XNUMX 월에 죽게 될 것이다.
퍼키는 16 살짜리 소녀를 강간하고 살해하여 80 살짜리 여자를 살해하고 아이를 납치하여 유죄를 선고 받았다. 혼켄은 두 명의 어린이를 포함하여 다섯 명이 사망 한 것으로 유죄 판결을 받았습니다. 넬슨은 10 살짜리 소녀의 납치, 강간, 살인에 대해 유죄를 인정했다.
Their attorneys have condemned the department’s decision and are asking the US Supreme Court to step in.
Purkey’s attorney said he is mentally ill and cannot understand why he is to be executed, AP 통신에 따르면. Honken’s attorney said there was misconduct during his trial that needed to be reviewed, and Lee’s attorney has accused the government of using “false evidence”.
The justice department said all four have “exhausted appellate and post-conviction remedies, and no legal impediments prevent their executions”.
The department on Monday also noted more executions will be scheduled at a later date.
