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Demonstrations against the execution of Brandon Bernard in the state of Indiana.
The Trump administration has carried out another federal execution. Brandon Bernard was executed with an injection of poison in the state of Indiana on Friday night Swedish time.
The 40-year-old man was convicted of murdering a pair of priests in the summer of 1999, when Bernard was 18 years old. Thus, he is the youngest criminal to be executed by the federal government in almost 70 years, writes the BBC. It is also the first federal execution in 130 years to take place during the transition period between two presidential administrations.
Despite widespread protests and public calls to convert the death penalty to life, with more than half a million people signing a petition, the sentence was served at Indiana Terre Haute Prison, where Bernard has been incarcerated since 1999. .
– I’m sorry. These are the only words that can fully describe what I feel now and how I felt that day, Bernard said in his final minutes and addressed the victims’ families directly, according to the AP news agency.
Federal executions resumed in July following a decision by the US government, after a 17-year hiatus. Since then, more federal executions have been carried out than under all of President Trump’s representatives since 1963, according to Reuters.
Four more executions are planned during Trump’s last term in power.
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