So the US federal government just executed this guy this morning. What gets me is the gall of his lawyer and the celebrites who are protesting this.
This guy murdered a married couple two pastors who pulled over to give him and his friends a ride. As shown in the article at the bottom this couple made a habit of helping troubled youth. They kidnap the couple and Bernard burns these two to death after his friend shoots them.
And Trump/barr is the bad guy for carrying out the sentence?
I am not really for the death penalty but ALL the people on federal death row are just as bad. I don't understand how anyone can really take the moral high road over someone that murdered two people by lighting them on fire in a planned kidnapping.
Next up is a execution on Friday of a guy who murdered his two year old.
The Trump administration plans to continue its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions Friday by putting to death a Louisiana truck driver who severely abused his 2-year-old daughter for weeks in 2002, then killed her by slamming her head against a truck’s windows and dashboard.
https://www.al.com/news/2020/12/alf...me-2nd-federal-inmate-executed-in-2-days.html
If this were Kim Kardhsian's family do you think she would be crying forgivness?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55261224
He was one of five teenagers accused of robbing the pair and forcing them into the boot of their car in Texas.
They were shot as they lay in the boot by 19-year-old accomplice Christopher Vialva before Bernard set the car alight.
Defence lawyers say both of the Bagleys probably died before the car was set on fire, and an independent investigator hired by the defence said
Stacie had been "medically dead" before the fire.
However, government testimony during the trial said that although Todd Bagley had died instantly, Stacie had had soot in her airway, signalling that she had died from smoke inhalation and not the gunshot wound.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-set-execute-brandon-bernard-200824383.html
Bernard was sentenced to death for his role in a robbery plot carried out by a group of friends between the ages of 15 and 19 on a remote stretch of the Fort Hood military reservation near Killeen, Texas. The victims, Todd and Stacie Bagley, married youth pastors who were white, were kidnapped and shot in the heads before the car they were in was set on fire, according to court documents.
“Tonight, those of us who love Brandon Bernard — and we are many — are full of righteous anger and deep sadness at the actions of the federal government in taking his life. Brandon’s life mattered. To us, his legal team; to his two beautiful and talented daughters; to his mother, brother, and sister; and to the countless people around the country who came to know him and his story in recent weeks," Bernard's attorney Robert C. Owen said Thursday night.
In addition, reality television star Kim Kardashian West, who has championed criminal justice causes, again asked her millions of followers on social media this week to appeal to Trump to commute Bernard's sentence. She tweeted earlier Thursday that she had been "crying all morning" before hearing of the appeals court's decision.
These people's lives mattered and I just think its sick that their murderer is being portrayed as a victim. That is just a snippet of the article there is a lot more about them in the article.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...-killed-brandon-bernard-execution/3893292001/
Todd and Stacie Bagley: What we know about the Iowa couple killed in Brandon Bernard's case
Bernard said Stacie's final words were “Jesus, take care of us” and "Jesus loves you."
The couple met in Texas
Todd, 26, and Stacie, 28, were in Killian, Texas, to attend church revival meetings. But it wasn't their first time in the state — the couple met in Texas when Todd was stationed in Fort Hood, an Army Post in Killeen. Stacie, originally from Newbern, Tennessee, sang in the choir at Grace Christian Church. She and Todd met through the church and worked together with its youth group.
They reached out to troubled youth
Todd and Stacie were familiar with talking to strangers from all walks of life: In Oskaloosa, they often met with troubled teens in parking lots and brought them to Jubilee Family Church, where they served as youth ministers.
It was no surprise to family and friends of the Bagleys that they would pick up the five young men — who ranged from 15 to 19 years old — when asked for a ride.
"It's not like they fell into it based on naivete," the Rev. Bill Tvedt of the Jubilee Family Church told the Des Moines Register in 2000. They were willing to help people."
