(07-26-2019 07:47 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  In terms of the executions, I wish they wouldn't reinstate it but in the administration's defense, the five people they mentioned are truly reprehensible individuals.

My point of contention though is why so many right away? I think the government has executed something like 37 individuals since 1927 or thereabouts. I don't have the year-by-year totals (no one has been executed since 2003, I know that). But I would imagine 5 in less than a year is way higher than the normal rate.

I also wonder why these particular inmates are in federal penitentiaries when it seems like some of them did not commit murders either of a terroristic variety, or on federal lands. Shouldn't they be under the jurisdiction of the state where they committed the crime?