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Human Rights group slams US Federal gov’t for carrying out first execution in 17 years

Washington, July 14 (Sputnik) A prominent human rights group slammed the US federal government for carrying out its first execution of a death row prisoner in 17 years after Daniel Lee was put to death earlier on Tuesday.
\\"We’re horrified the federal government carried out the first federal execution in 17 years, going against global trends away from the death penalty, and the 34 US states that have abolished the death penalty in law or not carried out an execution in at least 10 years,\\" Kristina Roth, senior program officer for Amnesty International USA’s Criminal Justice Program, was quoted as saying in a Twitter post by the rights group.
Roth said that the decision was even more egregious given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as holding the execution may have contributed to the spread of the disease. The rights group also cited the opposition to the execution expressed by victims’ relatives.
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