![]() RELATED: Despite recent COVID-19 infection, US executes Virginia man for 1992 slayings Among those prisoners who got COVID-19 last month were Higgs and former drug trafficker Corey Johnson, who was executed Thursday. She was the first woman executed in nearly 70 years.įederal executions began as the coronavirus pandemic raged through prisons nationwide. The only woman on death row, Lisa Montgomery, was executed Wednesday for killing a pregnant woman, then cutting the baby out of her womb. It’s likely none of the around 50 remaining men will be executed anytime soon, if ever, with Biden signaling he’ll end federal executions. ![]() 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. This is not closure." The statement didn't include the sister's name. "When the day is over, your death will not bring my sister and the other victims back. "They are now going to go through the pain we experienced," she said. He quickly became still, his pupils visible with his eyelids left partially open.Ī sister of Tanji Jackson - one of the murdered women who was 21 when she died - addressed a written statement to Higgs after his execution and mentioning his family. Louds sobs of a woman crying inconsolably began to echo from the witness room reserved for Higgs’ family as his eyes rolled back in his head, showing the whites of his eyes. He waved with his fingers and said, "I love you." (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)Īs the lethal injection of pentobarbital began to flow into his veins, Higgs looked toward a room reserved for his relatives and lawyers. A sign warns away trespassers at the Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute on Jin Terre Haute, Indiana.
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