Kim Kardashian asks Trump to grant pardon to a prisoner on the eve of his execution

American reality star and businesswoman Kim Kardashian, 40, on Wednesday asked US President Donald Trump for clemency for Brandon Bernard, who will be executed on Thursday for a double murder in which he was involved when he was 18 years old.

Kim tweeted: “My heart breaks when I think of this execution, and I ask the president to reduce Brandon’s sentence and put him in prison.”

#BrandonBernard should not be run:
1. I was 18 at the time.
2. It was not the shooter.
3. The prosecutor and five of the jurors now support the pardon.
4. You have spent decades in prison without a letter, helping at-risk youth.
5. There is bipartisan support for his commutation. pic.twitter.com/18GugdtuOs

– Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) December 10, 2020

Kardashian had repeatedly demanded clemency for inmates sentenced to death and questioned their guilt, although this time she did not express any doubt about Brandon Bernard’s involvement in the 1999 murder of priests.
She had posted a tweet in late November, stating that Brandon “participated in this crime, but his role was marginal compared to the other youths involved in it, and two of them were released from prison.” His mental development was not complete at the age of eighteen and a few months.
In 1999, Bernard participated with other black men in the kidnapping of Todd and Stacy Bigley to force them to withdraw cash, before the couple were killed and their bodies burned in the car.
Some of the young people who participated in this crime were under seventeen years old and had not been sentenced to death.
As for the shooter Christopher Villalfa (19 years old at the time of the crime) and Brandon Bernard, who set fire to the car, they were sentenced to death by a federal court in 2000 because the crime took place on military grounds.
He received the first lethal injection in prison last September, the fate that awaits Brandon Bernard tonight, as reported by “Agence France-Presse.”
This comes at a time when many are calling for a reduction in Bernard’s sentence for his good behavior in prison and his lack of maturity at the time of the events, including members of a jury that sentenced him to death and a former prosecutor responsible. of this file.
And if there are no last minute changes, Brandon Bernard will be the eighth prisoner to carry out the death penalty against him since the penalty was reintroduced at the federal level after a 17-year hiatus. Despite the epidemic that led the United States to suspend the implementation of sanctions of this type and the loss of Trump in the elections, his administration intends to carry out four executions before he abandons the whites on January 20.