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.
Outgoing US President Donald Trump administration carried out its last federal execution when Dustin John Higgs, convicted of kidnapping and murdering three w
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