Fuller picture emerges of the 13 federal executions at the end of Trump’s presidency
Criminal Justice,Capital Punishment And Death Penalty,Death Row,Death Sentences,Donald Trump
A day before the federal government executed a Texas man for the killing of an Iowa couple when he was 18, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz pleaded with then-President Donald Trump — a former client — to call the execution off.
During a Dec. 9, 2020, call to the White House, Dershowitz told Trump that Brandon Bernard, at 40, wasn’t the man he was when Todd and Stacie Bagley were killed in 1999 and that he deserved to have his sentence commuted to life in prison...
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