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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In its hurry to use its final days in power to execute federal prisoners, the administration of President Donald Trump has trampled over an array of barriers, both legal and practical, according to court records that have not been previously reported. Officials gave public explanations for their choice of which prisoners should die that misstated key facts from the cases. They moved ahead with executions in the middle of the night. They left one prisoner...

Five face execution in Trump's last six weeks Four men and one woman convicted under USA federal law face execution in the last six weeks of the Trump presidency. The USA federal authorities resumed executions after 17 years and have been pursuing an unprecedented number of lethal injections, bucking national and global trends towards abolition. The cases of those selected for execution have been affected by arbitrariness, ineffective legal representation, racial bias, and have involved people with severe mental and intellectual disabilities, in violation of international law and standards. ...

Federal Death Row Executions Raise Red Flags For Advocates By Emily Lever | December 20, 2020, 8:02 PM EST On Dec. 10, Brandon Bernard was executed by the federal government for a crime committed in 1999, over the objections of jurors who sentenced him to die, the prosecutor who defended his conviction on appeal, and a host of public figures and private citizens. On Jan. 14, Corey Johnson is set to be executed over objections that he has an intellectual disability that makes his death sentence unconstitutional, if his attorneys can't convince the courts to put a stop to execu...

Sara Weinberger: Shining a light on the federal government’s killing spree   Published: 12/21/2020 12:52:32 PM In June, Attorney General William Barr ordered the resumption of federal executions. Like a kid let loose in a candy store, Barr wasted no time. On July 14, Daniel Lee Lewis, according to his lawyer, spent the last four hours of his life strapped to a gurney, waiting for the Supreme Court to decide his fate. On July 13, a federal judge had delayed his execution on the grounds that the constitutionality of Barr’s procedure for lethal injections had not been fully litigated. The ...

Brandon Bernard, 40, Executed for 1999 Double-Murder: 'Wish I Could Take It All Back' People 12/11/2020 © USP Terre Haute Brandon Bernard On Thursday, the 40-year-old was put to death at the Federal Correctional Center in Terre Haute, Indiana. Bernard was convicted of two counts of murder, among other crimes, for his involvement in the 1999 double murder of youth ministers Todd and Stacie Bagley during a carjacking and robbery, in which Bernard, 18 at the time, was one of three participants but did not pull the trigger. Brandon Bernard, 40, Executed for 1999 Double-Murder: 'Wish I Could ...