See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information. DEATH row inmate Dustin Higgs was executed on January 16 at Terre Haute prison complex. Dustin Higgs, the last person to be executed under the Trump administration, died Saturday morning at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana. “Killing Richard Glossip” - watch now on discovery+.2020 Report: Enduring Injustice: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. AP: US inmate Scheduled to be Executed Tests Positive for Virus.The 48-year-old Maryland man maintained his innocence up until his death. Dustin Higgs was convicted and sentenced to the death penalty for being the accomplice to the 1996 murder of three young women. We also hear from Robert Dunham, the Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, who notes, “you can’t take race out of the death penalty.” Trump Administration Ends Its Execution Spree By Killing Dustin Higgs. Karina speaks to Higgs’ lawyer, Shawn Nolan, before and after the stay was issued, and we hear about the mad dash for clemency in the final days before Friday, January 15th. Dustin Higgs and Cory Johnson are scheduled for execution before President-Elect Joe Biden takes office on January 20th. The Trump administration has carried out 11 executions of federal death row inmates in its final months - three during its lame duck period, which hasn’t happened in over 130 years. On January 12th, a federal judge halted his execution due to his COVID-19 diagnoses, but experts say he's not out of the woods yet. Higgs is scheduled to be executed on January 15th. Dustin Higgs and the Fate of Federal Executionsĭustin Higgs has been on federal death row for two decades for the murder of three young women, but the man who shot all three is serving a life sentence.
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