Usa: Higgs executed, 13th federal execution since July

2021-01-16T07:59:44.352Z

Dustin Higgs, a 48-year-old African American sentenced to death for the killing of three women, received a lethal injection in the Terre Haute prison in Indiana. This is the thirteenth execution in six months, or since last July the president of the United States, Donald Trump, resumed federal executions after a 17-year moratorium. A court had asked to postpone the execution claiming that Higgs, suffering from Covid-19, would have suffered greatly due to the condition of his lungs. However, the Supreme Court had accepted the subsequent appeal of the Department of Justice, giving the green light to lethal injection.