A federal appeals court on Monday denied the Trump administration’s request to lift an injunction https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/21/william-barr-death-penalty-halted-federal-judge/?tid=lk_inline_manual_1 (blocking it from resuming federal executions) next week, setting up a likely escalation to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit means that — at least temporarily — the status quo remains in place. The administration’s https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-department-plans-to-restart-capital-punishment-after-long-hiatus/2019/07/25/f2cc6402-aee5-11e9-bc5c-e73b603e7f38_story.html?tid=lk_interstitial_manual_6&tid=lk_inline_manual_2 (plans to restart) federal executions after a nearly two-decade hiatus are still https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/21/william-barr-death-penalty-halted-federal-judge/?tid=lk_inline_manual_2 (blocked by a judge’s injunction), issued last month, that prohibited four death-row inmates from being executed while they challenge the government’s lethal-injection procedure in court.
In a brief order, a three-judge panel unanimously rejected the Justice Department’s motion to stay or vacate the injunction. The panel offered no commentary on the merits of the Justice Department’s appeal, saying only that its request to stay or vacate the injunction had “not satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending appeal.”
