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DPIC Analysis: Federal
Government to Conduct
First Lame-Duck
Federal Executions
in More
Than a Century
In a dramatic deviation from historical practices, the Trump Administration is poised to conduct the first federal executions during a lame-duck presidency in more than a century.
The Department of Justice has scheduled three federal executions during the administration’s lame-duck period: Orlando Hall on November 19, Lisa Montgomery on December 8, and Brandon Bernard on December 10. The last time the U.S. government carried out an execution between a presidential election and the inauguration of the new president for a federal crime was nearly 132 years ago, on January 25, 1889, when the outgoing administration of Grover Cleveland (pictured) executed Richard Smith, a Choctaw Indian, for a murder on tribal land in Arkansas.
A DPIC review of General Service Administration execution records found that the seven executions conducted by the Trump administration in the four-month lead-up to the 2020 presidential election is more than any other presidential administration had carried out in 78 years, dating back to the administration of Harry Truman in 1942. The soaring number of federal executions comes at the same time that states are on track to perform the fewest executions in 37 years. According to data from the Espy file—a compilation of executions in the colonies and U.S. since 1602—if all three currently scheduled executions go forward, the ten federal civilian executions will be the most in a single year since 1896, when the Cleveland administration carried out 16 executions during his second presidency.
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