12/11/2020
The Supreme Court on Thursday evening declined to postpone the execution of Brandon Bernard, who was sentenced to death for his involvement in the carjacking and murder of two youth ministers, Todd and Stacie Bagley, in Fort Hood, Texas. The court’s three liberal justices publicly dissented from the decision to allow the execution to proceed.
Bernard, who had just turned 18 at the time of the crime in 1999, is the ninth person to be executed by the federal government since July, when the Trump administration lifted a 17-year moratorium on the federal death penalty.
Shortly after the Supreme Court denied his final appeal, Bernard was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m. at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.