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News Wrap: EU’s top court voids data-sharing deal with U.S. tech companies
In our news wrap Thursday, the European Union’s top court voided an agreement that let big tech companies share data on EU citizens with the U.S. Privacy activists in the region welcomed the decision. Also, the Trump administration criticized China…
Judge halts second federal execution amid claims inmate isn’t mentally fit
Wesley Ira Purkey, convicted of a 1998 kidnapping and killing, was scheduled for execution Wednesday at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, where Daniel Lewis Lee was put to death Tuesday after his eleventh-hour legal bids failed.
U.S. carries out the 1st federal execution in nearly 2 decades
The U.S. government on Tuesday carried out the first federal execution in almost two decades.
Trump administration appeals judge’s order to delay federal execution
A U.S. 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 Trump administration immediately appealed, asking a higher court to…
A federal judge in Indiana is halting the first federal execution in 17 years, citing concerns over the coronavirus. Daniel Lee had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Monday.
Executions on the federal level have been rare. The government has put to death only three defendants since restoring the federal death penalty in 1988.
Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are asking Attorney General William Barr in a letter about the decision to resume executing federal death-row inmates for the first time since 2003.
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