Kim Kardashian has slammed the US justice system, branding it *f***ed up’, after the federal government executed Brandon Bernard on Thursday night.
The Supreme Court denied a last-minute appeal despite a plea from reality star turned prisoners rights activist Kim Kardashian.
Bernard, 40, received a lethal injection of phenobarbital at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, in a rare execution of a person who was in his teens when the crime occurred.
Bernard was 18 when he and four other teenagers abducted and robbed Todd and Stacie Bagley on their way from a Sunday service in Killeen, Texas, in 1999. The couple were shot and killed and then their car was set on fire.
Kim Kardashian, who has been fighting to commute Bernard’s sentence, mourned his loss, tweeting that he was an ‘amazing person’, claiming she felt ‘so messed up right now’ and that ‘our system is so f****d up’.
He was declared dead at 9.27pm as witnesses, including members of the families of his victims, watched from behind a glass barrier.
In a statement released today, his lawyers Robert C. Owen and John Carpenter said: ‘Brandon’s execution is a stain on America’s criminal justice system.
‘But I pray that even in his death Brandon will advance his commitment to helping others by moving us closer to a time when the country does not pointlessly and maliciously kill young black men who pose no threat to anyone.’