The Trump Executions.

The article focuses on brief history of the federal death penalty, with an emphasis on the modern era—the period following the Supreme Court's 1976 determination that the U.S. Constitution still permitted capital punishment. It mentions statutory and constitutional challenges to the pentobarbital-only lethal injection sequence and Trump Executions took place in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also mentions testing broader institutional commitments to the capital punishment process.