U.S. judge delays first federal execution in 17 years – ZAWYA

U.S. judge delays first federal execution in 17 years – ZAWYA

U.S. judge delays first federal execution in 17 years | ZAWYA MENA Edition HomeLegalArticleU.S. judge delays first federal execution in 17 years To allow legal challenges against the government's lethal-injection protocol to continue    A U.S. federal judge issued an injunction on Monday stopping what would have been the first federal execution in 17 years, scheduled for later in the day, to allow the continuation of legal challenges against the government's lethal-injection protocol.Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. district court in Washington ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to delay four executions the department had scheduled for July and August until further order of the court.Efforts to resume capital punishment at the federal level were underway within a few months of President Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017, ending a de facto moratorium that began under his predecessor, Barack Obama, while long-running legal challenges to lethal injections played out in federal courts.Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. district court in Washington ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to delay four executions the department had scheduled for July and August until further order of the court.A U.S. federal judge issued an injunction on Monday stopping what would have been the first federal