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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (Reuters) - On Thursday evening, Dustin Higgs, 48, waited in a cell on death row at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, his scheduled execution less than 24 hours away.
An anti-death penalty activist holds a sign during a vigil outside the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S. January 15, 2021. Picture taken January 15, 2021. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
A five-minute drive down the road, members of his legal team sat around a laminated plastic table in the lobby of a no-frills hotel off the interstate. Federal Defender Shawn Nolan sipped beer as he waited for his colleagues in Philadelphia to patch together the four or five points needed for a last-ditch court filing aimed at delaying Higgs’ execution by lethal injection.
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13th & Final Execution Of Death Row Inmates In Trump Presidency Carried Out On Jan 15
An inmate on death row in Indiana Dustin Higgs, died on January 15 when the Trump administration carried out its 13th and final federal execution.
An inmate on death row in Indiana Dustin Higgs, died on January 15 when the Trump administration carried out its 13th and final federal execution. The man has been accused of killing three women in Maryland in 1996. According to the reports by BBC, Higgs died of lethal injection at 01:23 local time.
Higgs was sentenced in 2000 for accompanying two other men who murdered 3 women in cold blood, with Willis Haynes, one of the men that pulled the trigger. The federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., pronounced Higgs guilty of charges first-degree premeditated murder, three counts of first-degree felony murder, and three counts of kidnapping that led to death.