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A Mason, Tennessee man was apprehended Thursday morning in the armed robbery of a convenience store at I-81 Exit 8 in Hamblen County.

Share The sole federal execution chamber in the United States is in a place called Terre Haute—the high ground—in far western Indiana, named for a swath of land that rises above the nearby Wabash River. The surrounding country is in fact flat and wide, precipitously exposed to the sky. The prison complex—south of downtown via Route 150, past the dome and bell tower of the Vigo County courthouse, and after the Tire Barn on Spring Hill Road—comprises the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution and the maximum-security U.S. Penitentiary, the home of the Special ...

Federal Execution Post-Mortem: The Final Three Carried Out in January 2021 By Jessica Constant, DPRP Intern [Note: This article is an update to our series on the 2020-2021 federal execution spree.]  In the waning days of his term, Donald Trump and his administration carried out three final federal executions. The executions of Lisa Montgomery, Corey Johnson, and Dustin Higgs brought the total number of executions carried out by the Federal Government in the past year to thirteen, a rate and number of executions unprecedented in modern times. Continuing the trend seen in the pri...

At the funeral of man executed by U.S., family prays it is the last of its kind 4 Min Read POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (Reuters) - By the grave dug for Dustin Higgs, the 13th and final prisoner executed by former President Donald Trump’s administration, a woman began to wail, doubling over and stomping her right foot as his coffin was lowered into the frozen ground. Alexa Cave grieves for her brother Dustin Higgs, the 13th and final prisoner executed by former U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, with family members leaving his graveside in Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S., January 29, 2021. ...

In the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency, the federal government undertook an effort to execute more people than any time since the 1930s, per the Bureau of Prisons (BOP).   In fact, The New York Times reported on January 18 the Trump administration has killed more people in the last six month