The only woman on death row, Lisa Montgomery, was executed Wednesday for killing a pregnant woman, then cutting the baby out of her womb and claiming it as her own. It’s likely none of the around 50 remaining men will be executed anytime soon, with Biden signaling he’ll end federal executions.Ħ50-Foot Freighter Hauling Salt Runs Aground Near Detroit Island Park The number of federal death sentences carried out under Trump since 2020 is more than in the previous 56 years combined, reducing the number of prisoners on federal death row by nearly a quarter. “I did not order the murders.”Īs the lethal injection of pentobarbital flowed into his veins, he looked toward family members waved with his fingers and said, “I love you.” Louds sobs of a woman crying inconsolably echoed for several minutes from a room reserved for Higgs’ family as his eyes rolled back in his head, showing the whites of his eyes before he stopped moving entirely. “I’d like to say I am an innocent man,” he said. In his final statement, Higgs was calm but defiant, mentioning the victims by name. Higgs, 48, was pronounced dead at 1:23 a.m. No president in more than 120 years had overseen as many federal executions. President Donald Trump’s Justice Department resumed federal executions last year following a 17-year hiatus. The Trump administration early Saturday carried out its 13th federal execution since July, an unprecedented run that concluded just five days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden - an opponent of the federal death penalty.ĭustin Higgs, convicted in the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge in 1996, was the third to receive a lethal injection this week at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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