Garland Imposes Moratorium on Federal Executions

“Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced a moratorium on federal executions, a shift from the Trump administration, which had resumed the use of the death penalty in federal cases,” The Hill reports.

The Washington Post reports Garland cited “serious concerns” that had been raised about the application of the death penalty across the country, particularly on its “disparate impact on people of color and the troubling number of exonerations in capital and other serious cases.”