Last two federal executions under Trump can proceed, court rule

[DonViejo]

Source: The Guardian/Reuters


Order overturns a stay from lower court to delay executions of condemned men to allow them to recover from Covid-19

Reuters
Thu 14 Jan 2021 13.00 EST

A US appeals court ordered that the last two scheduled federal executions under Donald Trump’s outgoing administration could proceed on Thursday and Friday, overturning a stay from a lower court delaying them until March to allow the two condemned men to recover from Covid-19.

The US Department of Justice announced last month that Corey Johnson, 52, and Dustin Higgs, 48, had been diagnosed with Covid-19 but that it would proceed with their executions this month.

Both men, convicted in separate murders, are being held on death row at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

On Tuesday, Judge Tanya Chutkan of the US district court ordered the executions be delayed until at least 16 March to allow the condemned men to heal, siding with medical experts who said their coronavirus-damaged lungs would result in inordinate suffering if they were to receive lethal injections.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/14/trump-executions-last-two-remaining

[underpants]

1. I just read up on Corey Johnson

That is a sad tale.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. MF45's legacy: Everything he touched, died.

[LiberalLovinLug]

3. You just know this has nothing to do with law and order, but his own lust fulfilled

for violence against someone else that he can legally get away with. The power to kill someone. It gives him at least a twinge of sick pleasure in these last days.

[EarthFirst]

4. 'Percy Wetmore' syndrome... nt

[flotsam]

5. +many.... N/T