WASHINGTON — A federal judge late Wednesday halted all four scheduled federal executions, finding that Attorney General William Barr's July proposal that sought to resume the death penalty after a 16-year moratorium appears to be at odds with federal law.

The four men were scheduled to be executed in December and January 2020. But U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan of the District of Columbia ruled Wednesday that the inmates were likely to succeed in their argument that Barr's proposal to execute all four using one type of lethal injection contradicts the Federal Death Penalty Act.

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