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Since Mr. Johnson’s trial lawyers did not claim he was intellectually disabled, no court has agreed to hold a hearing to consider the evidence to the contrary in appeals over the past three decades, Mr. Johnson’s current lawyers, Don Salzman and Ron Tabak, told me. “No court has ever applied modern medical standards, which are critical,” said Mr. Salzman. “No court has ever heard testimony from our three nationally recognized experts in intellectual disability, who have spent their careers, over 40 years each of them, focused on intellectual disability, who have all said that Corey Johnson has a compelling case and is clearly a person with intellectual disability.” ....
Jan. 11, 2021 Protesters have been demonstrating since July against the death penalty outside the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Ind., where Corey Johnson is being held.Credit.Bryan Woolston/Reuters In January 1993, a psychologist asked Corey Johnson to write a story about a picture of an astronaut crouching on a lunar landscape. In loops of cursive script, sloping left and then right, Mr. Johnson wrote, “me and my Mom went to the moon, when we got there there was people wroking they look like they was beilling something, but what I like most was when this man show us what they was look for.” The tale meandered for another nine sentences, culminating with a mystery: “but when I saw this man he look like he had found something, what I don’t no.” ....
Corey Johnson (pictured, left) and Dustin Higgs (pictured, below), announced that they had been notified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) that their clients had contracted the coronavirus, amidst an outbreak of the disease at the prison in the wake of the federal executions performed there in November and December 2020. The New York Times reported on December 21, 2020 that at least 14 federal death-row prisoners, and perhaps twice that number, were infected with the virus. Johnson and Higgs are seeking to delay their scheduled executions, arguing that the outbreak makes federal executions even more dangerous for prisoners, staff, lawyers, and others involved in the executions. In a statement issued on December 18, Johnson’s legal team noted that his diagnosis will “interfere with his attorneys’ ability to have meaningful contact with him during these critical days before his scheduled execution.” Both Johnson and Higgs are seeking clemency based on sign ....
by Steve Newton on December 18th, 2020 at 2:04 PM 1 of 3 2 of 3 If you re looking for a last-minute gift item for the vinyl lover on your list who always cranks up The Kid is Hot Tonite whenever Rock 101 reckons it s time for another spin, you re in luck. Loverboy recently released a 40th anniversary vinyl version of it s self-titled 1980 debut album, and it s bright red, just like Mike Reno s famous leather pants. “Boy did we get lucky in late 1979 to work with the best in the business, Reno is quoted in a Sony Music Canada press release, Bruce Fairbairn and Bob Rock... oh and don’t forget Mike Fraser. ....
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. ....