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‘Cold-blooded, premeditated murder’
Ian Sinclair talks to BILL BREEDEN, a retired Unitarian Universalist minister living in southern Indiana, and a longstanding opponent of the death penalty in the United States

Now 75 years old, Bill Breeden has served as a spiritual adviser to people on death row since the 1990s. Ian Sinclair asks him about witnessing an execution, the impact the incoming Trump administration will have on the death penalty and the work done by the British organisation LifeLines.

Ian Sinclair: In 2021 you witnessed the execution of Corey Johnson, a prisoner at Terre Haute federal penitentiary in Indiana. Can you give Morning Star readers a sense of your experience?

Bill Breeden: Corey was set to be executed on January 14 2021, just six days before Trump was to exit the White House for the last time, or so we hoped.

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