And there's another one scheduled to happen tonight.
Due to COVID, this year is on pace to be a record low number of executions in the US (on pace for 15, lowest since 1988), but 4 would be by the federal government, compared to 0 every year since 2003.
Next guy Dustin Honken is perhaps most notable as he's from Iowa, which doesn't have a state death penalty. It'll be the first execution for an Iowa crime since 1963.
However...Honken is probably the most awful of them so far.
Just read up on his crime. The judge who sentenced him to death even said he normally opposes the death penalty but wouldn't in this case. I still do but it's pretty hard to try to muster energy to save people like Honken.
Still glad executions will almost certainly halt under a Biden DoJ.
