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Trump Administration Executes Corey Johnson, Despite Evidence Of His Intellectual Disability

Corey Johnson, 52, had been diagnosed with COVID-19 last month. The Trump administration executed 52-year-old Corey Johnson on Thursday night, despite a Supreme Court ruling that executing people with intellectual disabilities like his violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment.  The government killed Johnson with a lethal injection of pentobarbital, a process that often causes pulmonary edema, a condition in which fluid enters the lungs while the person is still conscious and creates a painful sensation similar to suffocating or drowning. At the time of his execution, Johnson was still experiencing symptoms from his COVID-19 diagnosis last month. Medical experts have warned that receiving an overdose of pentobarbital would likely be even more painful for individuals recovering from COVID-19 because the virus often damages the lungs. 

What was Cory Johnson s IQ? Execution of serial killer labeled unconstitutional over intellectual disability

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 gang, was put to death at the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute, in Indiana. The current administration under President Donald Trump resumed federal executions last year after a 17-year hiatus and is expected to halt once President-elect Joe Biden who is against the death penalty is inaugurated on January 20. Federal inmate Dustin Higgs is set to be executed on Friday, January 15.

U S executes Virginia gang killer despite COVID-19 infection

The U.S. government executed a drug trafficker Thursday for his involvement in a series of slayings in Virginia s capital city in 1992, despite claims by his lawyers that the lethal injection would cause excruciating pain due to lung damage from his recent COVID-19 infection.

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