Texas gang member executed after U.S. Supreme Court denies request for a delay
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Brandon Bernard.
TERRE HAUTE, Indiana Brandon Bernard was executed by the federal government on Thursday at the Federal Correctional Center in Indiana, according to a pool report.
Bernard, 40, was one of five street gang members convicted in Texas of killing Stacie and Todd Bagley who were youth ministers in 1999. The gunman, Christopher Vialva, was executed in September, while the other co-defendants were given lesser sentences.
Bernard was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. He was the youngest person in the United States to receive a death sentence in nearly 70 years for a crime committed when he was an adolescent.
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Execution violence must end in U.S.
We are saddened and troubled by the news that after a 17-year moratorium, our federal government has decided to resume state-sponsored and sanctioned execution at the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute.
The murder of a human person by another human person is abhorrent and deeply painful. Like you, we grieve the murder of any person and reach out in pastoral care for those who mourn their deaths. However, it is important to underscore that the United States of America is the only developed nation that continues to believe that state-sponsored execution is a deterrent to others who commit violent crimes, including murder.Â
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