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Texas gang member executed after U.S. Supreme Court denies request for a delay
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Brandon Bernard.
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana Brandon Bernard was executed by the federal government on Thursday at the Federal Correctional Center in Indiana, according to a pool report.
Bernard, 40, was one of five street gang members convicted in Texas of killing Stacie and Todd Bagley who were youth ministers in 1999. The gunman, Christopher Vialva, was executed in September, while the other co-defendants were given lesser sentences.
Bernard was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. He was the youngest person in the United States to receive a death sentence in nearly 70 years for a crime committed when he was an adolescent.
Bernard, convicted for his role in a 1999 kidnapping and killing, is the ninth federal inmate to be executed this year and the first in 130 years to be put to death during a lame-duck presidency.