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December 11, 2020

U.S. Executes Brandon Bernard After Widespread Calls for Clemency
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In Indiana, officials at the federal prison in Terre Haute injected
40-year-old condemned prisoner Brandon Bernard with a lethal dose of
pentobarbital Thursday evening. The execution - on International Human
Rights Day - came after the Supreme Court declined to intervene to halt
the ninth execution of a federal prisoner this year. The Trump
administration plans to kill four more prisoners before Joe Biden's
inauguration. Click here to see our coverage of Brandon Bernard's case
and Trump's lame-duck executions, the first time in 130 years.


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