A Black man was executed by the federal government Thursday at a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, for a crime he committed at age 19, even though his attorney said prosecutors used inflammatory racial stereotypes during the trial 20 years ago to land her client on death row. The man, Christopher Vialva, was sentenced to death in the 1999 killing in Texas of a white couple who were youth ministers. He was the first Black inmate put to death since the Trump administration's revival of federal executions this year. |