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Supreme Court rejects death sentence appeal from Dylann Roof, who killed 9

In this image from the video uplink from the detention center to the courtroom, Dylann Roof appears at Centralized Bond Hearing Court June 19, 2015 in North Charleston, South Carolina. (Photo by Grace Beahm-Pool/Getty Images) WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Dylann Roof, who challenged his death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation.Roof had asked the court to decide how to handle disputes over mental illness-related evidence between capital defendants and their attorneys.

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On federal death row, inmates talk about Biden, executions

CHICAGO – On federal death row, prisoners fling notes on a string under each other’s cell doors and converse through interconnected air ducts. A top issue these days: whether President Joe Biden will halt executions, several told The Associated Press.

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Executioners sanitized accounts of deaths in federal cases

CHICAGO – Executioners who put 13 inmates to death in the last months of the Trump administration likened the process of dying by lethal injection to falling asleep and called gurneys “beds” and final breaths “snores.”

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Bureau of Prisons withheld info on COVID-19 diagnosis of journalists who witnessed executions

WASHINGTON (AP) - At least two journalists tested positive for coronavirus after witnessing the Trump administration's final three federal executions, but the Bureau of Prisons knowingly withheld the diagnoses from other media witnesses and did not perform any contact tracing, The Associated Press has learned.The AP is not identifying the journalists, but has confirmed they both received positive coronavirus tests following the executions earlier this month at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.The Bureau of Prisons just completed a record number of executions under former President Donald Trump, more than any previous administration.

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Feds withheld info on virus cases following executions

WASHINGTON – At least two journalists tested positive for coronavirus after witnessing the Trump administration's final three federal executions, but the Bureau of Prisons knowingly withheld the diagnoses from other media witnesses and did not perform any contact tracing, The Associated Press has learned.

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Man convicted in 3 killings to be last executed under Trump

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The last federal inmate facing execution before President Donald Trump leaves office was sentenced to death for the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge, a crime that led to a life sentence for the man who fired the fatal shots.Dustin Higgs, 48, who is scheduled to be executed on Friday at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, says nobody alleges he pulled the trigger.

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Despite recent COVID-19 infection, US executes Virginia man for 1992 slayings

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Death Row murderer Corey Johnson executed while battling Covid after last-minute ruling

President Trump.Mr Johnson committed the slayings in Virginia as part of a drug-trafficking ring.The 52-year-old was pronounced dead at 11.34pm local time on Thursday, following lethal injection with pentobarbital.He was put to death at the US Department of Justice's execution chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana.His lawyers argue he had an intellectual disability, meaning it was unconstitutional to execute him.His crimes included shooting a rival drug dealer, killing a woman who hadn't paid for crack cocaine and shooting a man at close range who he suspected was working with the police.His lawyers released a statement, saying Mr Johnson apologised to the families that were victimised by his actions.It read: “On the streets, I was looking for

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US carries out its 1st execution of a female inmate since 1953

In this handout photo provided by the Wyandotte County Sheriff's Department, Lisa Montgomery appears in a booking photo released December 20, 2004 in Kansas City, Kansas. Montgomery, of Melvern, Kansas, is accused of murdering the pregnant Bobbie Jo TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - A Kansas woman was executed Wednesday for strangling an expectant mother in Missouri and cutting the baby from her womb, the first time in nearly seven decades that the U.S.

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Trump's final two executions delayed to give killers time to recover from Covid

The executions of two condemned murderers have been delayed for months while they recover from coronavirus.

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US prepares 1st execution of female inmate in 67 years

MISSION, Kan. – The U.S. government on Tuesday prepared to carry out its first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades — a Kansas woman who killed an expectant mother in Missouri, cut the baby from her womb and passed off the newborn as her own.Lisa Montgomery faces execution at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, just eight days before President-elect Joe Biden, an opponent of the federal death penalty, takes office.

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Judge delays execution of only woman on US death row

WASHINGTON – A federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after president-elect Joe Biden takes office. U.S.

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Federal judge postpones execution of only woman on US death row

(Photo by Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - A federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after president-elect Joe Biden takes office.U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss also vacated an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons that had set Lisa Montgomery’s execution date for Jan.

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Judge delays execution of only woman on US death row

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Lawyers: 2nd US inmate scheduled to be executed has COVID-19

CHICAGO – A second federal inmate scheduled to be put to death next month in a series of executions by the Trump administration has tested positive for COVID-19, his lawyers said Friday.The diagnosis of Cory Johnson, who was convicted of killing seven people related to his drug trafficking in Virginia, comes a day after attorneys for Dustin John Higgs confirmed he tested positive at a U.S.

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US inmate scheduled to be executed tests positive for virus

WASHINGTON – A federal prisoner scheduled to be executed just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office has tested positive for coronavirus, his lawyer said Thursday. The Bureau of Prisons notified attorneys for Dustin John Higgs on Thursday that their client had tested positive for the virus, his attorney Devon Porter said during a court hearing Thursday afternoon.The revelation comes amid concern about an exploding number of coronavirus cases in the federal prison system and specifically at the complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, where the executions are carried out.

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Brandon Bernard put to death Thursday night after Supreme Court denies stay of execution

This August 2016 photo provided by the Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Washington shows Brandon Bernard. (Stacey Brownstein/Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Washington) TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Brandon Bernard was executed late Thursday night at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., making him the ninth federal inmate to be put to death this year.The Supreme Court denied Bernard's request for a stay of execution Thursday night, clearing the way for his death sentence to proceed. Around 8:30 p.m.

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US set to execute 1st of 5 inmates before Biden inauguration

CHICAGO – The Trump administration is planning an unprecedented five more federal executions before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, starting with a Texas street-gang member set to be put to death Thursday for his role in the 1999 slayings of an Iowa religious couple whose bodies he burned in the trunk of their car.Brandon Bernard was 18 when he and four other teenagers abducted and robbed Todd and Stacie Bagley on their way from a Sunday service in Killeen, Texas.

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Execution staff have COVID-19 after inmate is put to death

WASHINGTON – As the U.S. government plows forward with its plan for lame-duck executions in the midst of a pandemic, the Justice Department disclosed that eight staff members who took part in an execution last month tested positive for the coronavirus and five of those staffers will take part in executions scheduled for this week.

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Lisa Montgomery execution delayed after her lawyers contract coronavirus

A federal judge temporarily halted the planned execution of Lisa Montgomery after her attorneys contracted coronavirus. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss issued the ruling Thursday from Washington.The move bars the Bureau of Prisons from carrying out the Dec.

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Lisa Montgomery's lawyers seek to delay execution after contracting coronavirus

Two lawyers representing Lisa Montgomery, the first woman to face the federal death penalty in nearly 70 years, have moved to delay her execution because they contracted the coronavirus while working on her case, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

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U.S. to carry out 1st federal execution of woman in nearly 70 years

federal execution of a woman in almost 70 years, setting a Dec. 8 date to put to death Lisa Montgomery, convicted of a 2004 murder.Montgomery, who was found guilty of strangling a pregnant woman in Missouri, will be executed by lethal injection at U.S.

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Feds to execute woman who killed victim, cut baby from womb

WASHINGTON – A woman convicted of fatally strangling a pregnant woman, cutting her body open and kidnapping her baby is scheduled to be the first female inmate put to death by the U.S. government in more than six decades, the Justice Department said Friday.Lisa Montgomery is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Dec.

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2 dead of virus at US prison where executions are scheduled

WASHINGTON – Two inmates have died in as many days from coronavirus at the federal prison complex where the U.S. government plans to carry out two executions next week.

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Iowa meth kingpin is 3rd executed by US government this week

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Iowa drug kingpin who killed 5 set for execution Friday

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - A meth kingpin from Iowa who killed five people, including two young girls, is scheduled Friday to become the third federal inmate to be executed this week, following a 17-year pause in federal executions.Dustin Honken, 52, was sentenced to death for killing government informants and children in his effort to thwart his drug trafficking prosecution in 1993.Honken is set to die by a lethal injection of the powerful sedative pentobarbital at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he’s been on death row since 2005.

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US executes 2nd man in a week; lawyers said he had dementia

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - The United States on Thursday carried out its second federal execution this week, killing by lethal injection a Kansas man whose lawyers contended he had dementia and was unfit to be executed.Wesley Ira Purkey was put to death at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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Judge halts execution amid claims inmate isn’t mentally fit

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man said to be suffering from dementia, who had been set to die by lethal injection in the federal government’s second execution after a 17-year hiatus.Wesley Ira Purkey, convicted of a gruesome 1998 kidnapping and killing, was scheduled for execution Wednesday at the U.S.

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Another federal execution set for Wednesday after 1st in decades carried out in Indiana

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - The federal government on Tuesday carried out its first execution in almost two decades, killing by lethal injection a man convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in a 1990s plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.The execution of Daniel Lewis Lee came over the objection of the victims’ relatives and following days of legal delays, reviving the debate over capital punishment during a time of widespread social unrest.

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U.S. executes 1st federal inmate in 17 years

federal execution in almost two decades, putting to death a man who killed an Arkansas family in a 1990s in a plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest. The execution came over the objection of the victims’ family.Daniel Lewis Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, died by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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US carries out the 1st federal execution in nearly 2 decades

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