1、CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Federal Capital Punishment: Recent Developments Updated April 27, 2020 Update 4/27/2020: On April 7, 2020, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (D.C. Circuit) vacated the district cou
2、rts preliminary order barring the federal inmates executions from going forward. Two judges on the three-judge panel agreed that the district court misconstrued the Federal Death Penalty Act (FDPA), though the judges disagreed on the precise scope of the FDPAs requirement that federal executions be
3、implemented in the “manner” prescribed by the state of conviction. In light of the panel ruling, the federal inmates have sought rehearing by the full D.C. Circuit. Eventual Supreme Court review is a possibility as well, and some claims would remain to be addressed by the district court on remand fr
4、om the D.C. Circuit regardless. Update 11/22/2019: After this Sidebar was published, two more of the federal inmates scheduled for execution joined the litigation challenging the 2019 execution protocol and filed motions seeking preliminary orders barring their executions from going forward. On Nove
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