US executes Louisiana truck driver who killed daughter

Protesters demonstrate against the death penalty in Terre Haute, Indiana, where two men were executed on Thursday and Friday (Austen Leake/The Tribune-Star/AP)

The Trump administration continued its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions on Friday by putting to death a Louisiana truck driver who severely abused and then killed his two-year-old daughter in 2002.

Alfred Bourgeois, 56, was put to death on Friday evening after receiving a lethal injection at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.