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Death row inmate Brandon Bernard was executed tonight in Indiana after the US Supreme Court rejected the latest clemency requests. Bernard, 40, was convicted of murder in 1999 as a teenager, thus becoming the youngest prisoner to be executed in 70 years.
Before the end of the Trump presidency I am Another 4 executions are planned. With them, explains the BBC, his administration would have the record in more than a century. As of July they would be 13. Furthermore, no executions had been carried out during the presidential transition for 130 years.
Bernard was pronounced dead on Thursday at 21:27 local time (3:27 Italian time) in a prison in the city of Terre Haute. His last words of apology were addressed to the family of the victims. Bernard was sentenced to death for his role in the murder of two people in June 1999. He was one of a group of five teenagers accused of robbing the two victims and forcing them into the back of their car in Texas previously . To kill them. A 19-year-old accomplice of Bernard’s fired, while Bernard himself later he had set the car on fire. According to defense attorneys, the two victims had likely died before the fire. His lawyers had asked for life in prison without parole because Bernard he had been a model prisoner.
Five of the nine surviving jurors they had asked Trump to commute the death penalty by Bernard. Reality TV star Kim Kardashian had invited her fans on social media to support the campaign to stop the execution.
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