The U.S. on Tuesday carried out its first federal execution in almost two decades, killing by lethal injection a man convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in a 1990s plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.
The Justice Department has set new dates to begin executing federal death row inmates following a monthslong legal battle over the plan to resume the executions for the first time since 2003.
A combination of real-world and virtual actions are likely to follow in the aftermath of the U.S. killing of Qassem Soleimani, and experts warn that cyberattacks are likely to be the best-case scenario.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced that a former director of the Bureau of Prisons would return to take up the post, just over a week after Jeffrey Epstein's high-profile suicide while in custody.