Democratic allies and even some Republicans lobbied for the Trump administration to keep Barron in place, citing the state’s decline in violent crime during his tenure.

The White House fired as many as a dozen U.S. attorneys who were appointed by former President Joe Biden in a shakeup of the highly-politicized Justice Department, which Biden had weaponized to persecute his enemies,

John Fitzgerald Hanson is serving a life sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. His return for execution was blocked in 2022.