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For the past 131 years, it has been common practice in the United States for outgoing American presidents to refrain from carrying out executions. Donald Trump broke with this practice and executed a convicted murderer for the second time in two days.
African-American Alfred Bourgeois was killed Friday night (local time) in Terre Haute, Indiana, prison by lethal injection, the detention center announced. In 2004 he was found guilty of killing his two and a half year old daughter.
The former trucker took his daughter on one of his tours in 2002. He severely abused the girl and eventually hit her head on the windshield. Since the crime took place at a military base where Bourgeois exported, he was tried in federal court and sentenced to death.
African-American Brandon Bernard was executed at the Terre Haute detention center on Thursday, although many prominent supporters had spoken out against it. Bernard was arrested for murder when he was an 18-year-old gang member and was later sentenced to death by a jury. It is the 10th federal execution of the death penalty this year, regardless of the execution of the death penalty in the United States. This practice had previously been suspended for years.
22 US states have abolished the death penalty
According to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), the US government plans to carry out three more death sentences before the next US president, Joe Biden, takes office on January 20. Future President Biden, a Democrat, has spoken out in favor of abolishing the death penalty at the federal level. Republican Trump advocates the death penalty.
According to US media reports, two black women and one white woman are among the other three on death row who will be executed prior to Biden’s inauguration. She would be the first woman to be executed at the federal level in more than 60 years. His execution is scheduled for January 12.
Meanwhile, 22 of the 50 US states plus the Capital District of Washington have abolished the death penalty. Three other states have a moratorium, according to which the death penalty can still be imposed but can no longer be carried out.
