The federal government late Thursday executed 52-year-old Corey Johnson, who was convicted for his involvement in a burst of gang violence in Virginia in 1992, despite a federal judge earlier this week initially halting the execution after Johnson tested positive for COVID-19.
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Johnson was executed by lethal injection Thursday at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., making Johnson the 12th inmate executed at the Indiana prison since the Trump administration resumed federal executions following a 17-year hiatus on the practice.
Johnson’s lawyers up until his execution argued that the lethal injection would cause an intense amount of pain due to the long-term damage caused by his coronavirus infection last month.
However, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in a 2-1 decision Thursday that the two executions could proceed as planned, with Judge Gregory Katsas, a Trump appointee, writing for the majority that the lawyers’ arguments about health concerns amounted to “conjecture.”
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He had Covid? Would it have been preferable to treat him at the taxpayers’ expense, help him fully recuperate, and THEN sniff out his miserable life?
His lawyers were bidding on Biden, to commute his sentence. Too bad.
He had covid and now he died from covid.
amen to marc. from where/from whom is biden getting all the money he is so intent on spending? maybe from his wonderful honest son