The Trump administration is on track to execute more federal inmates than any president in the last 75 years

• Brandon Bernard, who was was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday, was the ninth federal inmate to be executed this year.
• Four more executions are scheduled to take place before President Donald Trump's term is up.
• At 13 executions, the Trump administration is on track to execute more federal inmates than any other president 75 years, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
• The last president to execute federal inmates during a lame-duck period was Grover Cleveland in 1890.

The Trump administration is on track to execute more federal inmates than any president in the last 75 years after Brandon Bernard was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday.

Bernard, 40, was the ninth federal inmate to be executed this year, and the Trump administration has four more executions planned before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on January 20.

Until earlier this year, no federal executions had taken place since 2003.

With a total of 13 planned executions under Trump, the administration is on track to execute more federal inmates than any other president in 75 years, according to the Bureau of Prisons.

The last president to have more than 13 inmates executed was Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose administration executed 16 people during his 12-year term between 1933 and 1945.

Further, Trump will be the first president to execute death row inmates during a lame-duck period in 130 years - last president to do so was Grover Cleveland in the 1890s, the Associated Press reported.

Bernard, who was convicted of participating in the group abduction, robbery, and murder of Todd and Stacie Bagley in 1999, was executed on Thursday, after advocates including Kim Kardashian and the Catholic Church asked President Donald Trump to stop the execution.

Bernard was a teen when he was convicted, and several jurors have said they regret choosing the death penalty over life in prison, AP reported.

His accomplice Christopher Vialva, the supposed ringleader who shot one of the victims in the head, was executed earlier this year.

Trump is a vocal supporter of the death penalty, and when federal executions resumed in July after a 17-year hiatus, US Attorney General William Barr said the people on death row were the country's "worst criminals."

Alongside Bernard and Vialva, other federal inmates to be executed this year were: Orlando Hall, William LeCroy, Keith Nelson, Lezmond Mitchell, Dustin Lee Honken, Wesley Ira Purkey, and Daniel Lewis Lee.

Federal inmates scheduled to be executed over the next six weeks are: Alfred Bourgeois, Lisa M. Montgomery, Cory Johnson, and Dustin John Higgs.

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