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Alfred Bourgeois, a truck driver from Louisiana on death row for murdering his 2-year-old daughter, is scheduled to be executed on Friday, December 11. Bourgeois would be the ninth federal prisoner to be executed this year, months after President Donald Trump s administration resumed executions after 17 years. Bourgeois execution has been given the go-ahead despite his lawyers claiming that he has intellectual disability and that his death would be unconstitutional.
Bourgeois, in July 2002, during a work delivery at Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi, repeatedly slammed his daughter’s head into a windshield and dashboard enraged that she had tipped over her potty trainer, court documents stated. The two-year-old sustained life threatening injuries and was placed on life support before succumbing at a hospital. Bourgeois, was promptly convicted and sentenced to death in 2004. He was also convicted of sexually molesting his daughter, according to