{"id":156029,"date":"2021-01-16T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dustin-higgs-becomes-13th-and-final-inmate-to-be-executed\/"},"modified":"2021-01-16T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T08:20:00","slug":"dustin-higgs-becomes-13th-and-final-inmate-to-be-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dustin-higgs-becomes-13th-and-final-inmate-to-be-executed\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dustin Higgs becomes 13th and final inmate to be executed"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Dustin Higgs becomes 13th and final inmate to be executed<\/strong>”
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Another federal death row inmate in Indiana was executed early Saturday \u2014 marking final execution under the Trump administration, and the 13th since July. <\/p>\n

Dustin John Higgs, convicted of ordering the murders of three women in Maryland in 1996, received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead shortly after 1 a.m. at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.<\/p>\n

Higgs, 48, was put to death despite his being sick with coronavirus. <\/p>\n

He is also the third inmate to be executed by the Trump administration this week. <\/p>\n

In his final words, Higgs insisted he was not guilty.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to say I am an innocent man,\u201d he said. \u201cI did not order the murders.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, a federal judge had delayed the execution for Higgs and Cory Johnson, a former drug trafficker who was executed Thursday, citing their poor health.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court cleared the way for Higgs\u2019 execution late Friday. <\/p>\n

After the execution, Higg\u2019s attorney, Shawn Nolan, said his client spent decades \u201cworking tirelessly to fight his unjust convictions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no reason to kill him, particularly during the pandemic and when he, himself, was sick with COVID that he contracted because of these irresponsible, super-spreader executions,\u201d Nolan said. <\/p>\n

Early Wednesday, Lisa Montgomery was executed by lethal injection in Terre Haute after serving in years on federal death row for cutting up a pregnant woman and running away with the baby. <\/p>\n

She became the first woman executed in the US since 1953.<\/p>\n

President-elect Joe Biden has said he is against the death penalty. <\/p>\n

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