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Lawyers for Cory Johnson on Friday revealed he has tested positive for COVID-19 He's the second death row inmate scheduled for execution next month to contract the virus   Johnson, a crack cocaine dealer convicted of killing seven people in 1992, will be executed on January 14 at a federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana Dustin John Higgs, who is also on death row at the same prison, was reported to have tested positive on Thursday  Higgs will be put to death one day after Johnson and just five days before death-penalty opponent Joe Biden's inauguration

Brandon Bernard was the youngest person in the country to receive the death sentence in almost 70 years for a crime he committed as a teenager.

For anyone. is my life worth living or isn't it? >> whether he would ultimately face capital punishment was uncertain. california has over 700 inmates on death row. they're far more likely to die of suicide or old age. the state has not executed anyone in over a decade. in fact, the governor just ordered the state's execution chamber to be closed. >> remember, andrew urdiales was a professional death row inmate. he'd been on death row in illinois for years and years and years. and san quentin of the death rows in america, it's not bad. they get their own cell, they get tv. depression was not a...

Has held is that one religious denomination cannot be officially preferred over another but the state's policy does just that. under that policy a christian prisoner may have a minister of his faith accompany him to the execution chamber to say his last rights but whether islam, judaism or any other, he may not die with a minister of his faith by his side. that treatment goes against the establishment clause's core principle of denomination neutrality. that dissent from elena okayingen last night. dominique ray was executed in alabama at 10:12 p.m. without his imam in the execution chamber. co...

The chaplain. he wanted his imam there to make sure he honored his muslim faith as he died. to make sure that the very last words he uttered on earth were a testimony to his faith. the prison warden said no to that. alabama's prison policy is that yes, you can have a member of the clergy there with you when you die when prison staff kill you, but by member of the clergy, they only mean a christian chaplain because the only member of the clergy they allow in the execution chamber is the christian chaplin who is employed by the prison, and they argue this is for security reasons. when dominique ...