US federal authorities executed a former drug trafficker who had contracted Covid-19 late Thursday, and a final execution of Donald Trumps administration was scheduled for Friday with just five days left of his presidency. Corey Johnson was part of a gang implicated in 10 murders in 1992 in the US ..
Corey Johnson, the Virginia man who killed seven in a burst of violence in 1992, was executed by the federal government by lethal injection on Thursday.
Corey Johnson was executed by lethal injection at the Terre Haute, Ind. federal prison Thursday night. He is the 12th inmate there to be executed since July under the Trump administration.
The federal government Thursday night executed a drug trafficker responsible for seven murders in 1992. His attorneys have claimed moving forward with the execution would be cruel and usual punishment because of his recent COVID-19 infection.
Corey Johnson, 52, was executed at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana and pronounced dead at 11:34 p.m. He is the 12th person to be executed by the government since July after the Trump administration restarted federal executions following a 17-year hiatus.