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The administration of US President Donald Trump wants to execute five people before leaving power. A man named Brandon Bernard was executed in Indiana on Thursday. Bernard’s last-minute apology was rejected by the United States Supreme Court.
If the executions of the remaining four are carried out, the number of executions under Trump will rise to 13. This is the highest execution record in the United States in the last 100 years. Eight people have been executed since July this year.
In the United States, the practice of not carrying out the death penalty continues in the interim period of the change of president. By breaking Bernard’s death, Trump broke the 130-year tradition. There are four other defendants that the Trump administration is preparing to execute. They will run in the next month.
Brandon Bernard, 40, was sentenced to death in 1999 for a double murder. He was a teenager at the time of the murder. He was executed Thursday for injecting poison.
Source: BBC
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