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obituario/u.s. news Diabierna 17 December 2021

Report: 11 executions in 2021 mark three-

decade low

(AP) — States and the federal government
carried out 11 executions this year, the few-
est since 1988, as support for the death pen-
Mi Dios, Mi Señor, Mi Salbador alty has continued to decline.
Cu Bo amor infinito tenemi den Bo braza
Ya no tin scuridad That’s according to an annual report on the death
Unicamente Bo Luz briyando penalty released Thursday, which was also sharp-
ly critical of the Supreme Court and its role in
Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta participa fayecimento green-lighting executions. Three of the death
di nos ser stima: sentences were carried out in January during an
unprecedented run of federal executions that
ended days before President Donald Trump left
office. Annual executions have steadily declined
since peaking at 98 in 1999.

Pandemic-related disruptions partly accounted for
the low number of executions this year — though
2021 marked the seventh consecutive year when
there were fewer than 30 executions and fewer
than 50 new death sentences, the report said.

The federal death penalty was put on hold in June
by Attorney General Merrick Garland, well short
of the permanent abolition activists hoped for
Sr. Hector P. Zievinger when Joe Biden became the first sitting U.S. pres- Center said far from representing the “worst of
Mihor conoci como “Boy chikito” ident to have openly opposed the death penalty. the worst,” 10 of the 11 prisoners executed this
*30-08-1941 - †15-12-2021 State executions continue despite growing num- year had “significant impairments,” including IQs
bers of Americans opposed to the death penalty. in the intellectually disabled range.
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The report from the Death Penalty Information Many cases were tainted by poor legal representa-
tion at trial and jurisdictions engaging in “shock-
ing conduct” to thwart judicial review of credible
constitutional claims, the report said.

The report also noted the three conservative ap-
pointments to the Supreme Court by Trump and
said the justices demonstrated “deep hostility to
stays of execution,” denying or lifting every stay
of execution requested — other than a few on re-
ligious grounds that inmates should have fuller
access to spiritual advisers.
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta poni mi sosega. Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega. The report also noted how some death-penalty
E ta hiba mi na awa trankil. E ta hibami na awa trankil, states scrambled for alternative execution meth-
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa. Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”. ods after pharmaceutical companies restricted ac-
Salmo 23 Salmo: 23 cess to drugs once widely used for lethal injec-
tions. It highlighted Arizona’s proposal this year
Cu profundo tristeza na nos curason, nos ta anuncia Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta participa to use the same cyanide hydrogen gas deployed by
fayecemento di: fayecimento di nos ser stima: Nazis to kill Jews.

Support for the death penalty, meanwhile, has
plummeted from a high of 80% in 1994 to 54%
this year, according to a 2021 Gallup poll cited in
the report. Since the mid-1990s, opposition has
risen from under 20% to around 45% now.

States also continue to rescind death penalty
laws. Virginia, once a prolific executioner, did so
in March, bringing the number of states to have
abolished the death penalty to 23. Three, includ-
ing California, have moratoriums on executions.

Executions have been increasingly concentrated
in a few Southern states. Texas executed three
inmates and Oklahoma two in 2021. Alabama,
Mississippi and Missouri each executed one. The
Trump administration executed three. The last,
Dustin Higgs, was executed five days before Joe
Biden’s inauguration. The federal executions
Eugenio Carel Mathilda Franklin I. Adamus brought the year’s total to 11.
Mihor conoci cu Tony *04-07-1951 - †08-12-2021 Trump’s Justice Department executed 10 fed-
21-11-1967 / 13-12-2021 eral prisoners in 2020, ending a 17-year hiatus as
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues COVID raged through prisons. States suspended
Acto di intiero lo wordo anuncia despues. their death penalty programs during the height of
the pandemic.