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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The Administration of the President of the United States (USA) Donald Trump executed on Thursday (10/12/2020) Brandon Bernard, who was 40 years old. Bernard was executed by injection at 9:27 pm
He was sentenced to death for acting as an accessory to crimes when he was 18 years old. The Trump administration continued with the death sentence for Bernard despite opposition from five of the nine jurors.
The Supreme Court rejected a last-minute postponement of Bernard’s execution. In fact, several prominent American judges such as Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor disagree.
“Today, the court allowed the federal government to execute Brandon Bernard. Regardless of the accusation of molesting Bernard, the government should uphold his death sentence and see evidence of perjury against him,” Sotomayor wrote in dissent. .
“Bernard never had the opportunity to prove the charges against him in court.”
Autopsy reports of prisoners who had been executed by lethal injection suggest that the drug used to kill Bernard likely caused the person to feel asphyxiated.
“Tonight, those of us who love Brandon Bernard are filled with anger and deep pain at the federal government’s action in taking his life,” Robert Owen, Bernard’s attorney for the past 20 years, said in a statement.
“Brandon made a big mistake at the age of 18. But he didn’t kill anyone and he never stops feeling shame and remorse for his actions in that crime.”
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