Bill Introduced to Abolish the Death Penalty:  Senate Judiciary Committee members joined by four Democrat presidential candidates have have proposed legislation to abolish the federal death penalty.  Janta Kan of the Epoch Times reports that Senator Cory Booker, who is running for president, was joined by Judiciary Committee members Patrick Leahy and Dick Durbin in an announcement Wednesday that the legislation would prohibit the execution of those convicted in federal court of aggravated first degree murder.  Co-sponsors of the bill include presidential candidates Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar.  The bill is in response to Attorney General William Barr's recent announcement to move forward with the executions of five federal murderers who have exhausted their appeals.  Among the killers the bill's sponsors want to spare is Wesley Ira Purkey, sentenced to death for the violent rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl, whose body he dismembered, burned, and dumped in a septic pond. He also was convicted in state court for using a claw hammer to bludgeon to death an 80-year-old woman who suffered from polio and walked with a cane.  CJLF Legal Director Kent Scheidegger said that the bill will go nowhere, citing polls indicating that most Americans do not want to abolish capital punishment.  The odds are zero that the Senate bill or the companion bill in the House will pass in either chamber.