U.S. executes truck driver who killed daughter, 2

The Trump administration continued its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions by putting todeathaLouisianatruckdriver who severely abused his 2-yearold daughter for weeks in 2002, then killed her by slamming her head repeatedly against a truck’s windows and dashboard. Alfred Bourgeois, 56, was pronounced dead at 8:21 p.m. Eastern time at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. His lawyershadargued he had an IQ that put himin the intellectually disabled category, saying that should have made him ineligible for the death penalty. Inhis lastwords, Bourgeois, strapped to a gurney, offered no apology and instead struck a deeply defiant tone, insisting that he neither killed nor sexually abused his baby girl.