Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Trump Administration in Federal Executions Case

Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Trump Administration in Federal Executions Case
The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington on June 28, 2014. Greg Kahn/Getty Images
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A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration’s plan to resume executions of federal death row prisoners via lethal injection does not violate federal law.

In a 2-1 ruling, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit lifted an order in November 2019 by a lower court judge that had put on hold the executions of four federal death-row inmates.