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. Though several of his accomplices in the plot who were younger than 18 were sentenced to time in prison, Mr. Bernard, a legal adult at the time of the crime, was eligible for the federal death penalty.

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.
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I'll be back

I don't know what to feel about this.

He looks mature and wiser.

Another chance at life would have been given to him.

Rush hour of executions in Trump's last moment in white house.

I'm sitting on this stairs at this church tryna start a verse

And somewhere in the world somebody bout to start a hearse

Tell me who inside it?
Who son is that?

And how'd he get there?
Now tell me who's gun was that?

I ain't saying confess, definitely ain't saying snitch

But if you kill the nigga, help his mama dig his ditch