Q&A: US government not as prolific an executioner as states
7:27am PDT - July 11th, 2020 julius jones - Associated PressCHICAGO (AP) — Executions carried out by federal authorities have stopped, restarted and stopped again for long stretches since the first one in 1790, when U.S. marshals hanged a mariner in Maine for fatally shooting the captain of a slave…