The Trump administration sentenced Brendan Bernard, convicted of double murder, to death on Thursday for the ninth time this year. In the US, this is the first case in the last 130 years of the death penalty during the end of the reign of a president. A few weeks before elected President Joe Biden took command of the US, the Trump administration plans to sentence four more convicts, one of whom is to be sentenced to death on Friday.
Earlier in late November a convict was sentenced to death. In 1999, Bernard, convicted of double-murder at a Texas military base, was put to death by injecting phenobarbital at a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. 40-year-old Bernard was pronounced dead at 9.27. It is being described as a rare case of death sentence for someone in the US who was a teenager at the time of committing the crime.
Many celebrities, including TV star Kim Kardashian West, had appealed to President Donald Trump to convert Bernard’s death sentence to life imprisonment. In the US, it is rare for the president to be given the death penalty during his transfer of power.
In the last 130 years, this is being said to be the first series of capital punishment during the end of the reign of a president. Earlier this happened in the 1890s, when the death of a president, there was a series of capital punishment. The US President at the time was Grover Cleveland.
