Cory Johnson Execution News Today

Copy to Clipboard Corey Johnson (US Penitentiary, Getty Images) Federal inmate Cory Johnson was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, January 14, night despite calls for the execution to be called off. Johnson, 52, had been arrested and convicted for the murders of seven people in Richmond, Virginia. However, activists and defense lawyers claimed that his IQ of 77 as ascertained at the time of his trial was wrong and that it was much lower. Johnson was a member of the Newtowne crack cocaine...

Copy to Clipboard Cory Johnson has been executed (Richmond Police) Cory Johnson was executed via lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex located in Terre Haute in Indiana. He was pronounced dead at around 11:34 pm ET on Thursday, January 14. Johnson had been sentenced to death for taking at least seven lives within 45 days in 1992 when he was part of the drug trade in Virginia. The weeks before Johnsons execution had been full of legal battles after he had been diagnosed with Cov...