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Ashcroft, Justice Department Campaign to Expand Capital Punishment

by Michael Rigby

During his four years as head of the U.S. Justice Department, Attorney General John Ashcroft has led a sinister campaign to force the federal death penalty in states that have either abolished capital punishment or rarely impose it.
Soon after taking office in 2000, Ashcroft was confronted ...

 

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