WASHINGTON – Two inmates have died in as many days from coronavirus at the federal prison complex where the U.S.
government plans to carry out two executions next week. The virus deaths are likely to raise alarm with advocates and lawyers for the condemned men over the spread of coronavirus at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
As of Tuesday, more than 40 inmates had confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to the agency’s statistics. The executions of Christopher Andre Vialva and William Emmett LeCroy are scheduled to be carried out at the prison complex next week.
The government carried out three executions in July and two executions in August.The Bureau of Prisons said a 53-year-old inmate, Tim Hocutt, died Monday.