A federal appeals court in Washington has upheld a ruling blocking the Trump administration’s plan to resume federal executions after a 16-year hiatus. The Justice Department had asked the court to block the injunction put in place by a district court judge that stalled the executions of four convicted murderers, Reuters reported. Attorney General William Barr said in July the federal government would resume capital punishment and scheduled the executions of five death-row inmates for December and January, ending an unofficial decade-long moratorium on federal executions. The inmates argued that the government was circumventing proper methods in order to wrongly execute inmates quickly. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPA federal execution has not taken place since 2003.

Source: Fox News December 02, 2019 23:03 UTC