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AG Barr orders more convicted murderers to be executed during Biden transition period
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[WashingtonExaminer] Attorney General William Barr ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions of three additional convicted murderers to take place during the presidential transition period, as President-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
has promised to end capital punishment at the federal level after decades of advocating for it as a senator.

All are slated to be executed by lethal injection at the federal penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana, and five total death row inmates are scheduled to be put to death on the federal level in the next two months, despite pushback from Democrats who want the Justice Department to hit the pause button until Biden is in office.

Alfred Bourgeois, who was convicted in 2004 of abusing, torturing, and beating to death his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter in 2002 by punching her in the face, whipping her with a cord, burning her foot with a lighter, and smashing the back of her head against his truck until she died, is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 11.

Cory Johnson, a narco convicted in 1993 for the murder of seven people in 1992 during a killing spree related to what he saw as insults or rivalries in the drug trade, including killing one person at close range and another who he thought had failed to pay for crack cocaine, along with that victim’s sister and a friend, is scheduled to receive the death penalty
on Jan. 14, 2021.

Dustin Higgs, who was convicted in 2000 for the kidnapping and murder of three women in 1996, when Higgs was rejected by one of the women at a party, offered the women a ride home, instead drove them to a secluded road and ordered his friend to kill them, which he did by shooting two in the chest and one in the back of the head, is scheduled to be put to death on Jan. 15, 2021.

The Supreme Court denied an appeal by Orlando Hall on Nov. 12, allowing the execution to move forward just before midnight. It was the eighth federal execution since Barr greenlighted the punishment this summer. Hall, a drug pusher who kidnapped, raped, bludgeoned, soaked in gasoline, then buried alive a 16-year-old girl in 1994, was executed on Thursday, more than two decades after his 1996 jury conviction.

Lisa Montgomery, found guilty of strangling a pregnant woman to death and cutting her open to kidnap her child in 2004, and Brandon Bernard, found guilty of murdering a husband and wife who were youth pastors on a military reservation in 1999, are slated to be executed on Dec. 8 and Dec. 10, respectively.

Barr, who in the summer of 2019 unveiled guidelines for resuming capital punishment under federal law following a hiatus stemming back to 2003, announced the resumption of federal executions this summer.

Convicted murderers Daniel Lee, Welsey Ira Purkey, Dustin Lee Honken, Lezmond Mitchell, Keith Nelson, William LeCroy Jr., and Christopher Vialva have all received the federal death penalty since the summer.

Biden changed his position on the death penalty after Barr’s announcement in the summer of 2019, calling for its abolition despite having been among the Senate’s most vocal supporters, previously bragging in the early 1990s that in one of his crime bill proposals, "We do everything but hang people for jaywalking."
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