BREAKING NEWS: US Attorney General Merrick Garland orders halt on federal executions after sharing multiple concerns about capital punishment with DoJ official US Attorney General Merrick Garland orders halt on federal executions after telling officials that capital punishment is too arbitrary The attorney general said the death penalty disproportionately targets people of color and risks wrongly killing innocent people Executions ordered by the US government were halted for close to two decades over shortages of drugs used for lethal injections But Attorney General Bill Barr - who served under Donald Trump - ordered them to resume in 2019 The Trump administration carried out 13 executions between July 2020 and January 2021
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US Attorney General Merrick Garland orders halt on federal executions after telling officials that