A former U.S. soldier, William Emmett LeCroy, 50, on Tuesday became the sixth federal inmate executed by lethal injection since July of this year at the Federal Correction Institution in Terre Haute (article available here). He was pronounced dead at 9:06 p.m. EDT. LeCroy's attorneys Tuesday appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of execution, but in the first order since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death, the court denied the request.
Last week, two inmates died in as many days from coronavirus at the federal prison complex where executions take place, creating concerns about those who would be attending this week’s executions. See coverage here.
Over previous 56 years, the federal government executed a total of three people — all in the early 2000s.