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."