Many of the province’s lawyers have thought of accusing the former death prisoners who Rulings have been reduced by former President Joe Biden After months The executive order for the White House He called them to do so.
To date, the Prosecutor Louisiana has sought a first -class killing request against Thomas Stephen Sanders at The death of a 12 -year -old girl was killed in the diocese of Kathla in 2010. While the Federal Execution in Sanders was reduced to life without the conditional release of Biden only a few months ago, the Louisian jury can restore the death penalty under the state law if convicted.
The Catholla Brad Burgit Prosecutor did not respond to the requests for commenting on the accusation of the major jury two weeks ago, however The NBC company, affiliated with Kalib In Alexandria, Biden’s decision was not approved in December to grant the mercy to these guests in the classroom.
“It is just respecting the victim,” he said.
Bert’s decision comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order regarding the death penalty in which they both have been widely declared that the United States should “make sure that the laws that allow the death penalty be respected and honestly executed,” and it took a specific goal in “both the 37 killer who was reduced by federal death sentences by President Biden.”
Trump is specifically calling for the American public prosecutor Take two specific measures Regarding those who were recently dissatisfied: “Ensure that these perpetrators are imprisoned in circumstances that are consistent with the brutality of their crimes and the threats they raised,” and secondly, “to further evaluating whether these perpetrators can be charged with government capital crimes and recommend appropriate procedures for the state and local authorities.”
NBC News has learned that many other provincial lawyers have thought about their weight against these former prisoners at the time of death after contacting the offices of prosecutors in seven other cases.
Public Prosecutor in Hori Province, South Carolina, has two separate issues that include recently Prisoners of mourning executions: one participates Brandon Bashham and Chadrik VolkswagenThe 2002 crime spail included the kidnapping and killing of a 44 -year -old woman in Conway, and another participating Brandon CouncilWho was convicted of killing two bank employees in Conway in 2017.
“We have not made any decisions about these cases yet,” said Jimmy Richardson, the fifteenth department’s lawyer. “We have met the families and we are going to review the evidence, but no decisions have been made.”
South Carolina only started Resumption of executions In September after a 13 -year -old stop, and for the first time in the past month, he put a senior prisoner Death.
Meanwhile, the offices of other lawyers in the province’s lawyers confirmed that they similarly reviewed their cases that involve death prisoners in their ranks whose penalties were reduced by Biden. It is not clear whether Trump’s order is to pay reviews.
The office of Saint Louis’s lawyer in Missouri said he had evaluated The case of Billy Allen and Noris HolderWho were convicted in separate federal trials in the death of a security guard during the armed bank robbery in 1997.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement: “Either the two men who are now spending the provisions of federal life without the possibility of conditional release,” The additional charges at the state level will not enhance public safety in the St. Louis region, “adding more prosecution” not in the public interest. “
The Tarant County Prosecutor’s Office in Texas said it also discussed the case of a former federal prisoner, Julius RobinsonIn 2002, he was convicted of killing three men in drug -related incidents.
Prosecutors said in a statement, “We discussed the facts and circumstances of the Julius Robinson case with both former and current federal prosecutors are familiar with the case. This case is not viable for the trial of premeditated murder in Tarant County,” Prosecutors said in a statement.
Experts say that bringing the state’s accusations in cases that have already been prosecuted – federal – and vice versa – is not uncommon, but doing this in an attempt to restore the death penalty may be complicated if not impossible.
For 15 out of 37 prisoners formerly to stand in the federation, their crimes occurred in the states that canceled the death penalty, such as Illinois and Virginia, or either formal or unofficial stops in the executions, such as California, North Carolina and Ouhayu.
After that, for 11 other prisoners, crimes who were sentenced to death on federal lands, such as the National Park or in a prison by the US government.
Paris Waks, a defense lawyer in Florida, said in these cases, the prosecutors can still try to provide charges as long as it appears that the state has a specialty as well.
In 2019, and The US Supreme Court supported The long -term idea of trying a person for the same crime in government courts and federal courts does not violate his protection against dual danger because the states and the federal government are “separate angels”.
“When a state looks at a person to sue someone on charges of murder, they are already doing life in a federal prison, it is a roll of dice,” Waks said. “The only difference is if you can get a jury to agree on the death penalty, and this is not guaranteed. Otherwise, is it worth it again?”
Defense lawyer at Louisiana Cecilia Kabel, Jesse Hoffmann Junior’s lawyer, who last month became the first prisoner Executed by NitrogenHe said that it is “very unusual” that the Public Prosecutor at the Kathla Archdiocese would like to request another trial in a case that has already won the conviction of federal prosecutors.
Capel said that the parish, which is rural and has less than 9,000 people, usually does not maintain capital trials and is suspicious of having the resources necessary for its status. Capital trials can be expensive due to the need to accommodate and feed jury if they are isolated and the possible payments of their expert witnesses and their travel expenses. In 2014, that And according to the cost stated The diocese of Desoto, with a population of three times the population of Catahoula, 105,209 dollars to try the capital.
Kabel said that there are other factors that must be taken into account in the experience of cases after many years, such as the availability of witnesses and evidence, as well as the defendants, who may be older and in decline in health. She added that the trial of another murder against Sanders, who is now 67 years old, could take years to start.
Federal defender in the Sanders case did not respond to the comment requests.
“They are playing games with taxpayer money and playing games with people’s lives,” Capel said. “Especially playing with the government public defense system.”
The Public Prosecutor of Louisiana Les Morel, who supports the death penalty, thanked the local prosecutor, in a Social media yet To get an indictment against Sanders. A spokeswoman said in an email that the office “will provide any assistance they may need in dealing with this death penalty, such as AG presented to all other DA in our state.”
When he asked to comment on Louisiana’s efforts, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice referred NBC news to A. February note Issued by Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi, on her first day, says that the Federal Prisons Office will ensure that the states “have sufficient supplies and resources to impose the death penalty.”
Since then, the Ministry of Justice has announced that it has requested the death penalty against Luigi MangionThe man suspected of killing the CEO of UNITEDHELTHARCACE Brian Thompson last year. Three others Stay currently In the federal execution class.
