WASHINGTON: The interim warden appointed to run the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein died was put in the position after serving as the executioner for at least five federal executions at the end of the Trump administration.
The federal Bureau of Prisons named Eric Williams as the interim warden at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City in late January after the prior warden, Marti Licon-Vitale, abruptly stepped down. Her yearlong tenure was marred by the rampant spread of the coronavirus, inmates complaints about squalid conditions, a gun smuggled into the jail and at least one inmates death.
Williams was appointed to the high-profile warden position a little more than a month after his last execution, having played a central role in the Trump administrations unprecedented run of capital punishment and serving as the executioner for at least five of the 13 executions in six months. He was previously the warden of a medium-security federal prison in Illinois.
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