Roar writer Kenza Essalama on recently executed US prisoner Brandon Bernard and the greater moral issue posed by death row.
Brandon Bernard – father, son, brother, friend, crochet master, youth worker, classical music lover… and for the past 20 years, a death row prisoner. Tragically, Brandon was executed by the US government on 10 December, 2020, despite a desperate 11th-hour appeal to reconsider his case. I see this as a fatal flaw of the US justice system.
In 1999, at the age of 18, Brandon Bernard was convicted for the murder of Todd and Stacie Bagley, a young pastor couple. Brandon was involved in a group carjacking and robbery which took a sinister turn when the ringleader of the crime, Christopher Vialva, shot the Bagleys in their car. With the gun still in his hand, Christopher directed Brandon to set the car on fire to dispose of the evidence. Brandon did as he was told.
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