![]() Stack, with the Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation, said he and others protesting Montgomery, Johnson and Higgs' scheduled executions want to raise awareness of their names, but also want to remember their victims. There are 52 federal prisoners on death row, according to The Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization critical of the death penalty. ![]() There have been 47 federal executions since 1927, including the 10 federal inmates put to death since July, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons. President Donald Trump resumed federal executions last year after a 17-year pause. Two others, of Corey Johnson and Dustin Higgs, are on hold because both tested positive for COVID-19 last month. Post Office and the Missouri state Capitol on High Street with almost a dozen others protesting three scheduled federal executions - one, of Lisa Montgomery, on hold at the time of the protest after a judge ordered a hearing on whether Montgomery is mentally competent however, the execution was later carried out. "We as a people, as a government, are willing to be pre-meditated murderers," Jeff Stack, of Pierpont, said of what America's willingness to carry out executions says about its society. As a small group of people Tuesday in downtown Jefferson City protested three scheduled federal executions, at least one among the group hoped the change in presidential administration will lead to changes in the nation's policy toward the death penalty.
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