CHICAGO (AP) — The Trump administration is poised to carry out five more executions before Joe Biden’s inauguration, starting with a former Texas street-gang member for the June, 1999 slaying of a young religious couple from Iowa. President Donald Trump has overseen the resumption of federal executions after a 17-year hiatus.

Forty-year-old Brandon Bernard would become the ninth federal inmate executed this year. He was 18 when he and five other teenagers abducted and robbed Christian youth ministers Todd and Stacie Bagley, who were on their way from a Sunday service in Killeen, Texas. Before moving to Iowa, Todd had been stationed at Fort Hood, where the couple attended Grace Christian Church and worked with the youth group. The couple had visited Killen to be with friends and were abducted at gunpoint while outside a convenience store, using a payphone.

If it goes ahead, Bernard would be a rare execution of a person in his teens when the crime occurred. It also would be a rare federal execution during a presidential transition. Another person involved in the murder, Christopher Vialva was executed for killing the Bagley’s this past September. His execution by lethal injections followed the announcement by US attorney general William Barr in 2019, that federal executions would be allowed to resume.