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The United States Government executed this Friday Alfred Bourgeois, a man who was sentenced to death for murdering his 2-year-old daughter in 2002 in the state of Texas.
A bourgeois, A 56-year-old African-American was pronounced dead at 8:21 p.m. local time after receiving a lethal injection in the Terre Haute (Indiana) jail, as notified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP, in English).
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The bourgeois It was the tenth execution ordered by the Government of Donald Trump during the second half of 2020, the first in nearly two decades within the federal system and an unprecedented run since the reintroduction of the death penalty four decades ago.
In fact, the United States Government ordered no more than 10 executions in a single year since 1896 during the Presidency of Grover Cleveland (1885-1889 and 1893-1897).
(Of your interest: Who are the condemned who will die before Trump leaves power?).
The case
Bourgeois was a transporter living in Louisiana with his wife and two children when, In 2002, he obtained partial custody of Jakaren Harrison, a 2-year-old girl he had had with another woman in Texas.
For a month in the summer of 2002, Bourgeois traveled in his truck with the little girl, abusing and torturing her with blows and burns frustrated by his use of his toilet for children, according to court documents.
One day, during a delivery in Corpus Christi, Texas, Bourgeois became enraged with the little girl after she flushed the toilet and He beat her to death against the dashboard and a window of the truck. Although the girl was taken to a hospital still alive, she died the next day from brain damage.
(Further: Why do they accuse Trump of using the execution of prisoners as a political weapon?).
Bourgeois was tried and convicted in 2004 within the federal justice system because the crime took place within the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station, where he was delivering supplies.
Executions in the USA
This Friday It was the seventeenth execution of the year in the United States, ten federal and seven state.
Since the Supreme Court restored the death penalty in 1976, 1,529 prisoners have been executed in the country, although only thirteen of them at the hands of the federal government.
The United States Attorney General, William Barr, has scheduled three more executions before Trump is due to leave power on January 20 and Democrat Joe Biden, who now advocates for the abolition of the death penalty, takes office.
(Keep reading: Supreme Court buries Trump in attempt to revoke elections).
The next of the three scheduled executions is that of the only woman sentenced to death in the federal system, Lisa Marie Montgomery, on January 12, while the other two will be days later.
EFE
