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Shortly before his replacement, the administration of the elected US President Donald Trump executed a black man convicted of murder for the second time in two days.

Alfred Bourgeois (56) was killed with lethal injection in the prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Friday evening, according to the US media.

The truck driver was found guilty in 2004 of abusing, torturing and killing his two and a half year old daughter.

Since the crime took place on a military base where Bourgeois was making a delivery, he was tried in federal court and sentenced to death.

Brandon Bernard (40), who was also convicted by a federal court, was only executed on Thursday in Terre Haute prison, although numerous prominent supporters had spoken out against it.

Bernard was arrested for murder as an 18-year-old gang member and then sentenced to death by a jury.

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For the past 131 years, it has been customary in the United States for outgoing US presidents not to have executions carried out.

Trump's successor Joe Biden has promised to suspend federal executions.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, the US government intends to carry out three more death sentences before it takes office on January 20.

Republican Trump is a proponent of the death penalty.

First woman in 60 years waiting to be executed

US Attorney General William Barr announced a resumption of executions at the federal level in 2019.

After a legal tug-of-war, a death penalty was carried out on this basis for the first time in more than 17 years in July last year.

Since then, a total of ten people have been executed on the orders of the federal government, regardless of the execution of the death penalty in US states.

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According to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), those executed since July included five white, four black and one Native American.

According to US media reports, two black women and one white woman are among the three other death row inmates who are to be executed before Biden's inauguration.

She would be the first woman to be executed at the federal level in more than 60 years.

Her execution is scheduled for January 12th.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), 22 of the 50 US states plus the capital district of Washington have now abolished the death penalty.

Three other states have a moratorium, according to which the death penalty can still be imposed but no longer carried out.

At the federal level, the death penalty was imposed between 2003 and July 2020 but no longer carried out.