Brandon Bernard: US government set to execute man despite last-minute pleas

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Brandon Bernard: US government set to execute man despite last-minute pleas.
It is one of five executions planned by Donald Trump’s administration in final weeks of presidency.
The US government is set to execute Brandon Bernard on Thursday night barring any last-minute intervention.
Bernard, who was 18 when he took part in a 1999 double murder in Texas, will die by lethal injection at an Indiana federal prison.
Now 40, Bernard will be the youngest person by the age at which the offense was committed, to be executed in the US for nearly seven decades.
Bernard will be the ninth person executed by Donald Trump’s administration since the federal government began executions again this summer after a 17-year break from executions in the country.
It is one of five lame duck executions that are planned in the final weeks of Mr Trump’s presidency and is set to go ahead at 5pm CET at the federal prison in Terre haute, Indiana.
The executions have broken a 130-year precedent of pausing them until the incoming president is sworn into office.
His lawyers had asked a federal appeals court to temporarily block the execution while they investigate claims prosecutors unconstitutionally withheld evidence that would have seen some jurors give him a life sentence.