A death row killer has been executed after the US Supreme Court rejected a ruling to delay his lethal injection while he recovered from coronavirus.
The ruling from the court meant Corey Johnson was strapped to a gurney a short time after the decision on Thursday night and injected with lethal doses of pentobarbital.
He was pronounced dead at 11.34pm local time at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. The Justice Department has scheduled the execution of fellow murderer Dustin Higgs, the other inmate affected by the ruling who had also caught the virus, for Friday evening.
They are the final two federal executions scheduled before Donald Trump leaves office on Wednesday. Higgs' lawyers continue to challenge his execution on other legal grounds