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The Trump administration plans to continue its series of federal executions by executing a truck driver in Louisiana who severely assaulted his two-year-old daughter in 2002, then killed her by hitting her head on the windows and dash of the truck..
Lawyers for the killer, Alfred Bourgeois, 56, say he has an IQ that puts him in the category of mentally disabled people, and they say it should have made him ineligible for the death penalty under federal law..
However, several appeals courts concluded that neither the evidence nor the penal code on mental disability supports the claims of Bourgeois’s legal team..
Bourgeois will be the 10th federal prisoner on death row to be executed since the resumption of federal executions under President Donald Trump in July, after a 17-year hiatus..
He will also be the second person to be executed this week in federal prison, in Terre Haute, Indiana..
In addition, Bourgeois’s lawyers say that the Republican president’s apparent rush to implement the death sentences before January 20, the day his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, took office, deprived his client of his rights to exhaust his options. legal..
On Thursday, Brandon Bernard was executed for his role in the 1999 murder of a religious couple from Iowa after he and other teenage members of a street gang kidnapped and robbed Todd and Stacy Bagley in Texas..
Bernard, who was 18 at the time of the crime, became the rare execution of a teenager when his crime was committed..
Several prominent personalities, including reality TV star Kim Kardashian, called on Trump to reduce Bernard’s sentence to life in prison, citing, among other things, Bernard’s youth at the time and the remorse he had expressed over the years. years..
Source: Russia Today
