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It was almost as if the administration was trying to set a perverse new benchmark in the “Guinness Book of World Records.” It carried out more executions in six months than any other administration had in six decades. These government killings gave new meaning to Operation Warp Speed: Instead of taking the necessary measures to protect millions of Americans from the physical and economic ravages of COVID-19, the “pro-life” federal government put work into carrying out 13 executions.
I did not know the others who were executed well enough Daniel Lewis Lee, Wesley Purkey, Dustin Honken, Lezmond Mitchell, Keith Nelson, William LeCroy, Alfred Bourgeois and Lisa Montgomery to speak about them with authenticity. But I spent decades with Christopher, Orlando, Bernard, Corey and Dustin Higgs here on federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana. I watched them grow into better men for themselves, their families and friends and in some cases on behalf of t
Supreme Court justices criticize rush on 13 federal executions since summer
Opponents of the death penalty gather at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 12, 2021. (CNS photo/Bryan Woolston, Reuters)
By Carol Zimmermann • Catholic News Service • Posted January 19, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) Although the Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution of Dustin Higgs Jan. 15, two justices made their objections known loud and clear in dissents that called into question the speed of these decisions and even the constitutionality of capital punishment.
Hours after the court’s 6-3 ruling, Higgs was pronounced dead at 1:23 a.m. (EST) Jan. 16 at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. His was the 13th federal execution since last summer.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) After a flurry of court decisions, the Supreme Court reversed a pair of rulings from federal appeals courts that had put death-row inmate Lisa Montgomery s execution on hold, and it denied two other last-minute requests to postpone the execution.