[20201201]IN11474_联邦死刑.pdf

CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i The Federal Death Penalty Updated December 1, 2020 In July 2020, under U.S. Attorney General Barrs direction and a revised Federal Execution Protocol Addendum (replacing the previous three-drug protocol used in executions with a single-drug procedure), the federal government resumed executions, ending a 17-year moratorium on the federal death penalty. Since the beginning of July, eight inmates have been executed and several more federal death row inmates are scheduled to be executed in December and January. This Insight focuses on federal death penalty policy in the context of death penalty practice in the country overall. Most death row inmates in the U.S. reside on state death rows in state prisons across 29 states, while federal death row inmates reside in various federal prisons and are sent to U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute in Indiana to be executed. Capital Punishment Policy The federal government practiced capital punishment from the countrys beginning until 1972, when the U.S. Supreme Court (in Furman v. Georgia) found particular applications of capital punishment to be unconstitutional under the E