Judge Halts Trump’s Plan to Resume Federal Executions

Judge Halts Trump’s Plan to Resume Federal Executions
Attorney General William Barr in Washington on Oct. 3, 2019. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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A federal judge on Nov. 20 ordered the upcoming execution of four federal death-row inmates to be put on hold.

The executions, which were scheduled for December and January, would have been the first federal executions in 16 years, ending an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty.