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Dustin Honken, 38, formerly of Britt, is on death row in Terre Haute, Ind., He has been including journal entries on Death Row Speaks, an anti-death penalty Web site founded in 2001 by federal death row inmates. It was designed to increase awareness of the death penalty and other related issues. The site allows visitors to ask inmates questions.
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Special Report: Death penalty in America may be living on borrowed time

The emotional and financial toll of prosecuting a single capital case to its conclusion, along with the increased availability of life without parole and continuing court challenges to execution methods, have made the ultimate punishment more elusive than at any time since its reinstatement in 1976. Ref. USAToday

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After death row: An unlikely love story

Shujaa Graham is one of 157 death row exonerees in the US. He and his partner Phyllis Prentice tell their story. Ref. Source 1l.

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Sometimes people who did not do anything wrong can be convicted of murder. This has been changing a lot with DNA evidence and it is making it easier to convict the right people of the right crimes. I know back in the 40s thru the 70s this nation was going through a lot of growing pains so to speak. We are getting much better now but there are still those. Who may be in prison wrongly.

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Ensuring that those on death row are indeed guilty should be of the utmost importance. That is why I have no issue with the extremely long wait periods between conviction and execution. That being said, I am not entirely sure how I feel about the ethicality of allowing these prisoners that are about to be executed a last meal of their choice. I would understand giving them something nicer than usual, but going through the process of offering them anything they want seems a little beside the point. They are being executed because they committed a horrific crime, and are in the end criminals. Even if the thought of death is scary, we can't forget what they did.

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I believe In the death penalty for certain crimes. It should be only in cases that have DNA evidence, uncoerced confesdions, video of the crime being done etc. In these cases the process should be greatly sped up due to there being no doubt of the person's guilt.

The Facebook killer last week that streamed it live where he killed that elderly gentleman. Those cases should be expedited.

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AG Barr directs federal government to resume capital punishment

Attorney General William Barr directed the federal government Thursday to resume capital punishment after nearly two decades and has directed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule the execution of five inmates after adopting an updated execution protocol.

Barr has directed the head of the Bureau of Prisons to execute "Five death-row inmates convicted of murdering, and in some cases torturing and raping, the most vulnerable in our society — children and the elderly," according to a statement from the Department of Justice.

At Barr's direction, the Bureau of Prisons has adopted the Federal Execution Protocol Addendum which "Replaces the three-drug procedure previously used in federal executions with a single drug—pentobarbital," the Justice Department announced. Ref. USAToday.

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Poison gas, firing squads: US approves more execution methods. Outgoing Trump administration paves way for additional methods of executing prisoners sentenced to death. Source 9j.