Instead, Higgs drove to the isolated area and, according to testimony, gave another man, Willis Haynes, a gun and told him to “make sure they’re all dead.” The women left, but accepted a ride with Higgs and two other men, thinking they would be driven home.
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Attorney’s Office.Īccording to trial testimony, the three women had been at Higgs’ apartment in Laurel when a dispute arose.
Because the land is federally owned, the case was prosecuted by the U.S. 27, 1996, the three women - Tanji Jackson, 21 Mishann Chinn, 23 and Tankia Black, 19 - were found shot to death along a desolate stretch of Route 197 in the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Prosecutors argued that he ordered another man to kill the women, and that man received a life sentence in a separate trial. Higgs’ defenders have argued that he does not deserve to die because he didn’t shoot the women himself. The Supreme Court also has been petitioned by federal attorneys in a separate case to allow Higgs’ execution to go forward.
“The public interest is not served by executing individuals in this manner.” “This is irresponsible at best,” she wrote. Judge Chutkan said the government’s continued executions during the pandemic endangers the lives of those who gather at the facility to witness or carry them out. “Given the widespread COVID outbreak on the federal death row and in the larger Terre Haute community, the government should stop its efforts to carry out Dustin’s execution during this raging pandemic.” “Today’s ruling correctly bars the government from subjecting Dustin to the agony of flash pulmonary edema that he would experience during execution, due to the disease the government itself exposed him to.”
“He is still experiencing many debilitating symptoms of the disease, including worsening of pre-existing health issues,” Nolan, a public defender, said in a statement.
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