US gov’t steps up executions, kills 7th prisoner in 3 months
Vol. 84/No. 41 - October 19, 2020![Lisa Brown, mother of Christopher Vialva, speaks at anti-death-penalty rally Sept. 24 at federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, hours before her son was executed. Poster shows his picture.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/LisaBrown_8441-300x210.jpg)
The U.S. government executed Christopher Vialva Sept. 24, the seventh federal inmate to be put to death since mid-July. These are the first federal executions to occur after a 17-year hiatus, and the most in a single year since before…