THE FINAL FIVE ON HIS DEATH LIST

WITH Lisa Montgomery, (right) four others are, or were, due for execution before Trump goes. The death penalty is meant to be reserved for the ‘worst of the worst’. But are they?

AS AN 18-year-old gang member involved in a double killing in Texas in 1999, Brandon Bernard ( right) was one of the youngest people to ever receive the federal death sentence, carried out last week.

DUSTIN HIGGS, 48, found guilty by a Maryland court in 2000 of kidnap and murder of three women, although his accomplice pulled the trigger. Scheduled for execution on January 15.

CORY JOHNSON, 45, convicted in 1993 of murdering seven people who fell foul of his Virginia drugs gang. The victims of his 45-day killing spree included suspected informants, rival dealers and people deemed to have insulted gang members. One victim was stabbed 85 times, another shot 16 times. His lawyers argue Johnson must be spared because he is intellectually disabled, related to abuse and neglect he experienced as a child. Scheduled to be executed on January 14.

ALFRED BOURGEOIS, 56, convicted in Texas of killing his two-year-old daughter in 2002. The court heard the lorry driver sexually abused and tortured her before slamming her head into the window of his cab. His lawyers cited his low IQ as evidence he is ‘intellectually disabled’, making his execution unconstitutional. Before he died by lethal injection on Friday, he insisted he was innocent and asked God to forgive those who ‘planted false evidence’.