John M. Crisp
Guest Columnist
Living on death row is never a picnic, but the next five weeks are going to be a special kind of hell for three federal prisoners currently awaiting execution. Certainly, many Americans are looking forward to the end of the Trump administration, but none hope as anxiously to see the light of day on Jan. 20, 2021, as Lisa Montgomery, Cory Johnson and Dustin John Higgs.
The current spate of just-before-the-bell executions began this summer when the Trump administration resumed the use of capital punishment after a 17-year hiatus. Most recently, Brandon Bernard was executed on Dec. 10. Bernard was part of a gang that committed a brutal abduction and murder of two youth ministers in Texas in 1999.
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The Trump administration is on track to execute more federal inmates than any president in the last 75 years
INSIDER 12/11/2020 kmclaughlin@businessinsider.com (Kelly McLaughlin) © REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo President Donald Trump participates in a medal ceremony in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on December 3, 2020..JPG REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Four more executions are scheduled to take place before President Donald Trump s term is up.
At 13 executions, the Trump administration is on track to execute more federal inmates than any other president 75 years, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
The last president to execute federal inmates during a lame-duck period was Grover Cleveland in 1890.
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