![The Return of the Federal Death Penalty](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/03/supreme_court_1552680176.jpg)
Attorney General William Barr’s decision directing the Bureau of Prisons to resume execution of inmates sentenced to death by the federal government is so inconsistent with recent developments with respect to the death penalty that it makes plain how the action is driven more by electoral politics than public safety or penal policy. Nine states [...]