Cory Johnson’s diagnosis came a day after attorneys for Dustin Higgs confirmed he had tested positive at a US prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where both men are on death row.
Johnson, Higgs and a third inmate, Lisa Montgomery, are scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at the federal complex just days before Biden takes office.
The Trump administration resumed federal executions after a 17-year pause in July and has carried out 10 death sentences since then, including two last week. It has executed more people in a single year than any other administration in more than 130 years and this year has killed more inmates than all the states put together.
Former Richmond drug trafficker was scheduled to be executed for string of 7 murders in 1992 Now he has COVID-19
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Lawyers: 2nd US inmate scheduled to be executed has COVID-19
by Michael Tarm And Michael Balsamo, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 18, 2020 2:07 pm EDT
Last Updated Dec 18, 2020 at 2:14 pm EDT
CHICAGO 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 Corey 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.