Trump administration plans second execution in as many days

The federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana Picture: Michael Conroy/AP

The Trump administration plans to continue its unprecedented series of post-election executions by putting to death a truck driver who severely abused his two-year-old daughter for weeks in 2002, then killed her by slamming her head against a truck’s windows and dashboard.

Lawyers for 56-year-old Alfred Bourgeois, from Louisiana, say he has an IQ that puts him in the intellectually disabled category, and contend that should have made him ineligible for the death penalty under federal law.