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Jessica Schulberg January 14, 2021, 8:43 PM Corey Johnson, 52, had been diagnosed with COVID-19 last month. (Photo: Provided by counsel for Corey Johnson) 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 a...

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 exe...

Melissa Jeltsen, Jessica Schulberg January 11, 2021, 2:45 AM Since President Donald Trump incited violent rioters to storm the U.S. Capitol last week, lawmakers and members of his own Cabinet have mulled whether he’s too dangerous to complete the final days of his presidency. Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat have decided he’s currently unfit to operate social media accounts on their platform. But he still has the power to kill. During his last full week as president, the Trump administration plans to execute three people on death row, capping a historically unprecedented six-month execution...