TERRE HAUTE – The US government executed a drug trafficker Thursday for his involvement in a series of slayings in Virginia’s capital city in 1992, despite claims by his lawyers that the lethal injection would cause excruciating pain due to lung damage from his recent COVID-19 infection.
Corey Johnson, 52, was the 12th inmate put to death at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, since the Trump administration restarted federal executions following a 17-year hiatus.
He was pronounced dead at 11:34 p.m.
After an official announced that Johnson was dead, clapping could be heard coming from another of the witness rooms and someone also could be heard whistling. (AP)
