Arbitrariness
,Race
,Federal Death Penalty
,Feb 25, 2021
Expressing concerns about wrongful convictions, racially disparate impact, and arbitrariness, Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland (pictured) told the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing on February 22, …
Executions Overview
,Federal Death Penalty
,Jul 06, 2021
In a memorandum that left to Congress the task of addressing systemic questions of arbitrariness, racial discrimination, and wrongful convictions affecting the administration of the federal death penalty, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garl…
Federal Death Penalty
,Jul 13, 2021
Major U.S. editorial writers have criticized the Biden administration’s June 30, 2021 announcement o…
Religion
,New Voices
,Federal Death Penalty
,Apr 12, 2023
On April 9, 2023, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called upon Attorney General Merrick Garland to withdraw the government’s pursuit of the death penalty and accept a plea deal for a mandatory life sentence in the mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsb…
Sentencing Data
,Federal Death Penalty
,Mar 22, 2023
On March 14, 2023, at the direction of Attorney General Merrick Garland (pictured), the U.S. Attorney for the District of North Dakota withdrew the notice of intent to seek a death sentence for Alfonso Rodriguez, Jr., who had been convicted in 200…
Federal Death Penalty
,Mar 13, 2023
On March 13, 2023, a jury in the federal death penalty prosecution of Sayfullo Saipov in New York City concluded its deliberations without coming to a unanimous decision regarding sentencing. As a result, Saipov will be sentenced to life in prison…
Lethal Injection
,Federal Death Penalty
,Dec 21, 2021
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland seeking information on the Department of Justice’s death penalty practices and policies, including whether DOJ…
Victims' Families
,Religion
,Federal Death Penalty
,Jul 08, 2021
A Jewish congregation whose members were among the eleven people killed by a white supremacist in an attack on Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in October 2018 has renewed its request for the Department of Justice to drop the d…
Federal Death Penalty
,Feb 02, 2023
Sayfullo Saipov (pictured) was found guilty in federal court on January 26, 2023 of killing eight people on a New York City bike path in 2017 by driving a truck into a crowd of people. He will now likely be the first person to face a federal capit…
Arbitrariness
,Innocence
,Race
,Federal Death Penalty
,Aug 12, 2021
Seventeen U.S. Senators and four Members of Congress who are leading the effort to abolish the federal death penalty have called on U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland (pictured) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to stop seeki…
Victims' Families
,United States Supreme Court
,Federal Death Penalty
,Mar 07, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned a federal appeals court decision that had reversed the death sentences imposed on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people …
Victims' Families
,Religion
,Federal Death Penalty
,Oct 27, 2021
Three years after the religiously-motivated attack on Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, the status of the state and federal prosecutions in the case remains unsettled. As the three Jewish congregations who wors…
Victims' Families
,Religion
,New Voices
,Federal Death Penalty
,May 30, 2023
On May 25, 2023, 12 death-qualified jurors and six alternates were selected in the federal capital trial of Robert Bowers, who is charged with killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. Prosecutors struck all the Black, Hispanic, an…
