(Photo : Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Anti-death penalty activist Judy Coode of Pax Christi International demonstrates in front of the U.S. Justice Department s Robert F. Kennedy Building July 13, 2020 in Washington, DC.
The U.S. government carried out its 13th and final federal execution under the Trump administration on early Saturday.
The execution took place mere days before the end of the Trump administration and the inauguration of anti-death penalty President-elect Joe Biden.
Unlike the Trump administration, Biden appears to have a clear mission against death penalty as he vowed to put an end to it, reported Reuters.
Dustin Higgs, 48, was convicted for ordering the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge in 1996. He had his execution through lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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US to carry out 13th and final execution under Trump administration
Dustin Higgs was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for overseeing the kidnapping and murder of three women in Maryland in 1996.PHOTO: AFP
UpdatedJan 16, 2021, 4:10 pm
PublishedJan 16, 2021, 10:29 am SGT
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