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US judge halts federal executions hours before resumption

The US government was expected to appeal against the decision in a bid to carry out the first such execution since 2003.

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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    Mute Shane Walsh
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    Apr 9th 2019, 12:52 PM

    Very sad news and sadly happening too often.

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    Mute Padraic Mulry
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    Apr 9th 2019, 1:09 PM

    @Shane Walsh: what happened

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    Apr 9th 2019, 1:29 PM

    @Padraic Mulry: Fatality on the line. (See Irish Rail Twitter)

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    Apr 9th 2019, 12:38 PM

    Close the comments ffs!

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    Apr 9th 2019, 1:01 PM

    @Chessie Cat: Why?

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    Apr 9th 2019, 1:04 PM

    @Chessie Cat: always the houlier than thou person in the with close the comments comment. Grow up.

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    Apr 9th 2019, 1:25 PM

    @Dave Harris: People not person..

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    Apr 9th 2019, 1:38 PM

    @Dave Harris:

    If you were there when it happened you wouldn’t be so smug!

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    Apr 9th 2019, 1:14 PM

    Update: Services between Bray and Greystones suspended UFN due to a tragic incident on the line. Bus services are accepting tickets. Bus transfers for Rosslare services. DARTs operating between Bray and Howth/Malahide, significant knock on delays can be expected https://t.co/vtXSi8G1Lu

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    Apr 9th 2019, 6:48 PM

    Why the cover-up?
    Sounds like a suicide to me.
    Intelligence-insulting euphemisms like “tragic incident” really don’t help.

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    Mar 17th 2020, 3:31 AM

    @A Pop Fan’s Dream: Maybe the author phrased it in that such way out of respect for the family. It is no ones business but the families about what happened to their loved one. The main point that was being said in this article is that the rail services has been suspended, not to spread the gory details on what happened. Be careful about what you comment on these posts. You don’t know who is reading it, including the persons family (which is me).

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