In the last days of Trump, the execution of a prisoner infected with Corona

In its final days, the government of US President Donald Trump carried out the death sentence for a man infected with the Coronavirus, in the second execution in a week for the Trump administration.

The US government executed Corey Johnson, an intellectually disabled killer with Covid-19 disease, late on Thursday.

Johnson, 52, was convicted of killing seven people in Virginia in 1992. Witnesses said they heard relatives of the victims clapping and cheering from a viewing room inside the death hall in a prison in Terra Haute, Indiana, after the execution of the sentence was announced at 11:34 pm. .

Johnson’s execution came hours after the scheduled time, after the US Supreme Court rejected a petition from his lawyer, who said that he suffers from severe intellectual disability, which prevents him from being executed by law.

On Wednesday morning, the US government executed Lisa Montgomery, convicted of murder, the only woman awaiting execution by a federal court, after the Supreme Court removed the last hurdle to execution.

Montgomery’s execution marked the first time that the US government carried out a death sentence against a prisoner since 1953, according to Reuters.