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The Trump administration carried out its 13th and final federal execution today, killing Dustin Higgs, after Corey Johnson and Lisa Montgomery.
BREITBART 17 Jan 2021 COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The last federal inmate facing execution before President Donald Trump leaves office was sentenced to death for the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge, a crime that led to a life sentence for the man who fired the fatal shots. Dustin Higgs, 48, who is scheduled to be executed on Friday at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, says nobody alleges he pulled the trigger. His lawyers have argued it is “arbitrary and inequitable” to execute Higgs while Willis Haynes, the man who fatally shot the women in 1996, was spared...
“I am an innocent man. ... I am not responsible for the deaths,” he said softly. “I did not order the murders.”
The Trump administration carried out its 13th and final federal execution after Dustin Higgs received a lethal injection.
The Trump administration has carried out its 13th and final federal execution, five days before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in.