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Supreme Court justices criticize rush on 13 federal executions since summer Opponents of the death penalty gather at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 12, 2021. (CNS photo/Bryan Woolston, Reuters) By Carol Zimmermann • Catholic News Service • Posted January 19, 2021 WASHINGTON (CNS) — Although the Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution of Dustin Higgs Jan. 15, two justices made their objections known loud and clear in dissents that called into question the speed of these decisions and even the constitutionality of capital punishment. Hours after the court’s 6...

(AP Photo by Jim Salter) Freshman Rep. Cori Bush (D-BLM) is already earning her chops as a member of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-Clueless) “Squad” — in “splendid” fashion. Before we get to Bush’s latest effort, the following promo tells you all you need to know about Cori Bush. The Black Lives Matter organizer, who marched in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to protest the legal police-shooting of Michael Brown, is scheduled to sit down with the geniuses of “The View” on Monday and “weigh in on the latest headlines.” Too bad I’ll be busy; I’d love to hear h...

Trump administration executes two more death row prisoners in pre-Inauguration Day killing spree The US government executed two prisoners Thursday night and early Saturday as the Trump administration continued its killing spree in advance of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on January 20. The US Supreme Court allowed both executions to proceed. Federal death row inmate Corey Johnson, 52, was executed Thursday night at the federal prison facility in Terre Haute, Indiana. His execution was the second time in less than five weeks that the federal government executed a likely intellectu...

"After seventeen years without a single federal execution, the Government has executed twelve people since July," Sotomayor wrote in her dissent.

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...