04 September 19
FOCUS: Peter Slevin | Witnessing a Federal Execution
Peter Slevin, The New Yorker
Slevin writes: "When William Barr, the attorney general, announced plans to put five federal prisoners to death by the end of January, he set in motion what could be the U.S. government’s first executions since 2003."
Peter Slevin, The New Yorker
Slevin writes: "When William Barr, the attorney general, announced plans to put five federal prisoners to death by the end of January, he set in motion what could be the U.S. government’s first executions since 2003."
EXCERPT:
Then there is the other side of the ledger, where Trump, with relish, exercises his Presidential power to excuse lawbreaking, often on the recommendation of friends and courtiers. Just four days after Barr’s death-penalty announcement, the President granted clemency to seven people. One was Ted Suhl, who owned two companies that received more than a hundred and twenty-five million dollars in Medicaid funding for faith-based mental-health services and paid bribes to a state regulatory official. In allowing Suhl to leave prison more than three years ahead of schedule, Trump credited the lobbying efforts of the former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, the father of his fiercely loyal former press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Earlier, he pardoned the conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who illegally funnelled contributions to a Republican Senate candidate. He also pardoned Joe Arpaio, the hard-line anti-immigration sheriff in Arizona who broke the law by defying a federal judge’s order to stop detaining people solely because they were suspected of being in the United States illegally.
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