WASHINGTON — Despite a high-profile clemency campaign, the Justice Department executed Brandon Bernard by lethal injection on Thursday for his part in a 1999 double murder-robbery when he was 18. Mr. Bernard, the ninth man executed by the federal government since July, spent more than half his life on death row. In his final days, supporters of Mr. Bernard, now 40, pleaded with President Trump to grant him clemency. Because he was a teenager at the time of the murders, his case revived questions about imposing the death penalty on young inmates convicted of violent crimes. In a break with Mr. Trump, Mr. Biden has said he will work to end the federal death penalty.

Source: New York Times December 11, 2020 03:04 UTC