Higgs had a traumatic childhood and lost his mother to cancer when he was 10, the petition said. 19 petition for clemency argued he had been a model prisoner and dedicated father to a son born shortly after his arrest. “There 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.” “The government completed its unprecedented slaughter of 13 human beings tonight by killing Dustin Higgs, a Black man who never killed anyone, on Martin Luther King’s birthday,” Nolan said. His death sentence was the first imposed in the modern era of the federal system in Maryland, which abolished the death penalty in 2013. In October 2000, a federal jury in Maryland convicted Higgs of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the killings of Tamika Black, 19 Mishann Chinn. It’s likely none of the around 50 remaining men will be executed anytime soon, 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. No president in more than 120 years had overseen as many federal executions. Trump’s Justice Department resumed federal executions last year following a 17-year hiatus. "To put that in historical context, the Federal Government will have executed more than three times as many people in the last six months than it had in the previous six decades." Dustin Higgs at the Federal Prison in Terre Haute, Ind., in 2015. "Today, Dustin Higgs will become the thirteenth," she continued.
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