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The government of President-elect Donald Trump (74) had a black man convicted of murder executed almost six weeks before his replacement, despite prominent opposition. Brandon Bernard, 40, was killed by a lethal injection Thursday night (local time) at Terre Haute, Indiana prison, US media reported casually.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, the United States government plans to carry out four more death sentences before Trump’s victorious challenger, Joe Biden (78), takes office on January 20. Future President Biden, a Democrat, has spoken out in favor of abolishing the death penalty at the federal level. Republican Trump, on the other hand, is an advocate for executions. The US Supreme Court rejected a request to stay Bernard’s execution on Thursday night.
Reality star Kim Kardashian, who has good relations with Trump, had campaigned for Bernard, who was arrested for murder as an 18-year-old gang member and sentenced to death by a jury. An hour before Bernard’s death, Kardashian wrote on Twitter: “It is Human Rights Day and here in America we are executing someone who was 18 years old at the time of the crime and who was not the shooter who was rehabilitated. So embarrassing. “(SDA / kes)
