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LAST UPDATE | 13 Jul 2020
A US DISTRICT judge has ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana.
The administration is certain to ask a higher court to allow the executions to move forward.
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan said there are still legal issues to resolve and that “the public is not served by short-circuiting legitimate judicial process”.
The executions, pushed by the Trump administration, would be the first carried out at the federal level since 2003.
The new hold on executions came a day after a federal appeals court lifted a hold on the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, which is scheduled for 4pm local time on Monday at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
He was convicted in Arkansas of the 1996 killings of gun dealer William Mueller, his wife, Nancy, and her eight-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell.
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Shocking level of primitive brutality in Ireland still.
The average time served for life sentence in Ireland is 12 years…Not really a full life sentence….
Maybe judges only live to be 12 years of age.
Half of them do have same intelligence as a 12 year old. Maybe thats why.
@John003: Currently in Ireland the average life sentence is approximately 18 years, according to the Irish Prison Services. A prisoner serving life is eligible to have their case reviewed after seven years in custody.
Still a joke – life sentence should be life.
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