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‘Disparate Impact On People Of Color’: Biden’s DOJ Halts Capital Punishment

Hank Berrien
‘Disparate Impact On People Of Color’: Biden’s DOJ Halts Capital Punishment
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On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland blocked federal executions, writing to his Department of Justice in a memo that the application of the death penalty had exhibited “arbitrariness in its application, disparate impact on people of color.”

Garland wrote:

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