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Federal Death Row Executions Raise Red Flags For Advocates By
Emily Lever | December 20, 2020, 8:02 PM EST On Dec. 10, Brandon Bernard was executed by the federal government for a crime committed in 1999, over the objections of jurors who sentenced him to die, the prosecutor who defended his conviction on appeal, and a host of public figures and private citizens.
On Jan. 14, Corey Johnson is set to be executed over objections that he has an intellectual disability that makes his death sentence unconstitutional, if his attorneys can t convince the courts to put a stop to executions as a COVID-19 outbreak spreads like wildfire through federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana.
December 26, 2020
Federal judge blocks January 12 execution date for only woman on federal death row
As repoted in this AP piece, a federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after president-elect Joe Biden takes office. Here is more about a ruling that was handed down before Christmas:
U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss also vacated an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons that had set Lisa Montgomery’s execution date for Jan. 12. Montgomery had previously been scheduled to be put to death at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, this month, but Moss delayed the execution after her attorneys contracted coronavirus visiting their client and asked him to extend the amount of time to file a clemency petition.
Is there any chance COVID might halt the three pending federal executions slated for next month?
The question in the title of this post is prompted by this AP piece headlined Lawyers: 2nd US inmate scheduled to be executed has COVID-19. Here are the details:
A second federal inmate scheduled to be put to death next month in a series of executions by the Trump administration has tested positive for COVID-19, his lawyers said Friday. The diagnosis of Cory Johnson, who was convicted of killing seven people related to his drug trafficking in Virginia, comes a day after attorneys for Dustin John Higgs confirmed he tested positive at a U.S. prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where both men are on death row.
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