Drug dealer convicted in 7 killings could face execution

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A U.S. inmate who could be executed before President Trump leaves office was a gang member sentenced to death for seven slayings. Corey Johnson’s execution was halted after a COVID-19 diagnosis, but there's a chance the Supreme Court could still allow it.

FILE - This Aug. 28, 2020, file photo shows the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind. Corey Johnson, A federal inmate scheduled to be executed less than a week before President Donald Trump leaves office was a gang member who was sentenced to death for killing seven people in Richmond, Virginia in 1992. Johnson is scheduled to be executed Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, at the federal prison in Terre Haute.

Corey Johnson, who was sentenced to death in connection with seven of the slayings, was right in the thick of it as one of the leaders of the Newtowne gang. He and two other members were sentenced to death under a federal law that targets large-scale drug traffickers. In their clemency petition, Johnson’s lawyers asked Trump to commute his death sentence to life in prison. They described a traumatic childhood when he was physically abused by his drug-addicted mother and her boyfriends, abandoned at age 13, then shuffled between residential and institutional facilities until he aged out of the foster care system.

C.T. Woody Jr., the lead homicide detective on the case, said that during his interrogations of Johnson, he denied any involvement in the killings and said police were trying to frame him because of lies people were telling about him.

 

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It would be a Covid death since he died with Covid. logic countvoncount

What, delay the execution because he’s sick....LOL.

So a Covid diagnosis will stall an execution? Interesting that you need to be heathy before execution. 😀

Your honour we would like the prisoner to recover from his near death illness so we can kill him. stupidity

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