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Trump administration executes its last death row inmate
Posted : 2021-01-17 16:13
Updated : 2021-01-17 16:45
Alexa Cave, sister of Dustin Higgs, talks about the moment she watched her brother being executed at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S. January 16, 2021. REUTERS-Yonhap
The U.S. government put to death Dustin Higgs early Saturday, concluding the Trump administration s effort to revive federal executions.
Prison officials at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., declared Higgs, 55, dead at 1:23 a.m. He maintained his innocence in his final statement. I d like to say I am an innocent man, he said. I did not order the murders.
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (Reuters) - On Thursday evening, Dustin Higgs, 48, waited in a cell on death row at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, his scheduled execution less than 24 hours away.
An anti-death penalty activist holds a sign during a vigil outside the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S. January 15, 2021. Picture taken January 15, 2021. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
A five-minute drive down the road, members of his legal team sat around a laminated plastic table in the lobby of a no-frills hotel off the interstate. Federal Defender Shawn Nolan sipped beer as he waited for his colleagues in Philadelphia to patch together the four or five points needed for a last-ditch court filing aimed at delaying Higgs’ execution by lethal injection.