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Federal inmate Cory Johnson was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, January 14, night despite calls for the execution to be called off. Johnson, 52, had been arrested and convicted for the murders of seven people in Richmond, Virginia. However, activists and defense lawyers claimed that his IQ of 77 as ascertained at the time of his trial was wrong and that it was much lower.
Johnson was a member of the Newtowne crack cocaine gang, was put to death at the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, in Indiana. The current administration under President Donald Trump resumed federal executions last year after a 17-year hiatus and is expected to halt once President-elect Joe Biden who is against the death penalty is inaugurated on January 20. Federal inmate Dustin Higgs is set to be executed on Friday, January 15.