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| AP - Fuller picture emerges of the 13 federal executions at the end of Trump's presidency |
| 2023-10-03 |
| CHICAGO (AP) — A day before the federal government executed a Texas man for the killing of an Iowa couple when he was 18, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz pleaded with then-President Donald Trump — a former client — to call the execution off. During a Dec. 9, 2020, call to the White House, Dershowitz told Trump that Brandon Bernard, at 40, wasn’t the man he was when Todd and Stacie Bagley were killed in 1999 and that he deserved to have his sentence commuted to life in prison. Trump sounded sincere when he said he wished he could spare Bernard’s life, but he added apologetically that he’d already promised the victims’ relatives that Bernard would be put to death, Dershowitz said about the 20-minute call. "’They’re on their way. They’re on their way,’" Trump kept saying, Dershowitz recalled. The relatives, Trump explained, were on the road to the prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where federal executions are carried out and it was "’too late to pull them back.’" Bernard was executed the next day. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Not to mention another Brandon, nor the greatest July 3 birthday boy of all, high priest of Tin Pan Alley himself... |
| Posted by: Slats Slaviling9070 2023-10-03 22:42 |
| #5 Speaking of dying at forty... "My client, then only a kid, Twenty years ago--" "Did what he did. And that guy and his wife, At the end of their life, Would've died for a twenty year bid." |
| Posted by: Slats Slaviling9070 2023-10-03 22:30 |
| #4 When they can resurrect the dead, we can talk about it. It was the appellate process that dragged the proceeding this long. That was Bernard's choice. Blame that. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-10-03 18:24 |
| #3 The Iowa couple is the same as they were back when he killed them: Dead. Until he can remedy that, F&*k him. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-10-03 13:02 |
| #2 Nobody is the same person they were at 18. Including but not limited to the 18.5 year olds. It is a moronic 'throw everything at the wall sumpin' is bound to stick' defense. He CHOSE to do what he did. At this point given the low rate of solved cases, and even fewer solved cases resulting in the death penalty, it is no accident he ended up where he was. And No, the rest of the social order should not prostrate themselves with faux grief over this callous murderer. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2023-10-03 12:47 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-10-03 11:25 |
