The US government executed Christopher Vialva, the first (b)lack inmate put to death as part of the Trump administration’s July resumption of federal executions that ended a 17-year hiatus. […] Thursday’s execution came as the US grappled with racial disparities in its criminal justice system, with people taking to the streets across the US to protest against police brutality and racism. Of the 56 people on federal death row, 24, or almost half, are (b)lack. […] Prosecutors had said that Vialva, then 19, accompanied by gang affiliates, had staged a carjacking in Killeen Texas, killing Stacie and Todd Bagley in...