Trump administration puts second man to death in two days

The Guardian UK

Alfred Bourgeois’s IQ put him in the intellectually disabled category, which should have barred execution, lawyers sayThe Trump administration continued its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions Friday by putting to death a Louisiana truck driver who abused and killed his two-year-old daughter. Alfred Bourgeois, 56, was pronounced dead at 8.21pm eastern time after receiving a lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/11/federal-execution-alfred-bourgeois-trump-administration #trump_administration #capital_punishment #us_news