The federal government plans to execute two people this week (article available here). The first is William Emmett LeCroy, 50, on Tuesday, September 22, 2020. He would be the sixth federal inmate executed by lethal injection this year. Another execution is scheduled for Thursday, that of Christopher Vialva, who would be the first African-American on federal death row to be executed this year.
LeCroy, a former U.S. soldier, asked the president in a recent petition to commute his sentence to life in prison, citing, among other things, that his brother, Georgia State Trooper Chad LeCroy, was killed during a routine traffic stop in 2010. The petition notes that the person who killed LeCroy’s brother, Gregory Favors, pleaded guilty in state court and received a sentence of life in prison, arguing that the two cases show how capital cases can often be arbitrary.