2nd inmate slated for execution next month tests positive for COVID-19 By (0) Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A second federal death row inmate set to be executed next month has tested positive for COVID-19, his lawyers announced Friday. Corey Johnson, 52, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Jan. 14 at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., for his role in a Richmond Va., drug gang tied to 10 murders. Advertisement Attorneys Don Salzman and Ron Tabak said their client tested positive for the novel coronavirus amid a "growing outbreak on federal death row." "The government must stop conducting executions during a COVID-19 outbreak in the facility, and we have called on the Department of Justice to withdraw Mr. Johnson's execution date," they said.