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A Poughkeepsie native became the 13th and final person to be executed under President Donald Trump early Saturday morning. Dustin Higgs, convicted in the 1996 murders of three women in Maryland, was pronounced dead at 1:23 a.m., just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay issued Wednesday by a federal appeals court. The Supreme Court voted, 6-3, to vacate the stay issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The 48-year-old became the third person to receive a lethal injection this week at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. In his final statement, Higgs ...

Man convicted in three killings to be last executed under Trump 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 wome...

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.

A federal jury in Maryland convicted Higgs of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the killings of Tamika Black, 19; Mishann Chinn. 23; and Tanji Jackson, 21.

Campaigners are calling for Dustin Higgs to be spared his life ahead of the US prisoner’s scheduled execution on Friday for killing three women. Nearly 1.8 million people have signed a petition pleading that Higgs, 48, should not be put to death. The last death row inmate facing federal execution before President Donald Trump leaves office was scheduled to be executive at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. His lawyers have argued it is...