Fresh details have emerged about the 13 federal executions that were carried out in the final six months of Donald Trump's presidency
FILE - The interior of the execution chamber in the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., is seen, March 22, 1995. Fresh details are emerging three years since 13 historic federal executions were carried out in the final six months of Donald Trump's presidency.
Other newly available information includes an autopsy report obtained by the AP for Corey Johnson, convicted of seven drug-related killings. It concluded that during, he suffered pulmonary edema, a painful condition akin to drowning. So much fluid rushed up his trachea that some exited his mouth.
Observers assumed it was Trump’s initiative. But in his 2022 book, “One Damn Thing After Another,” Trump's attorney general at the time of the executions, Bill Barr, suggested it was actually his. Lawyers for Bernard and Vialva, who were tried together, say prosecutors also mischaracterized the Black defendants to a nearly all-white jury as gang thugs.
“With the Trump executions, I can’t give you a view of the law that would explain why any of them happened," she said.
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