Haynes who confessed to shooting the women, received life sentence, Higgs who prosecutors said handed Haynes his gun and ordered him to kill, was sentenced to death. Higgs and Willis Haynes were convicted at separate trials for the 1996 murders. Alexa Cave (Higgs’s sister) said, “They Killed my brother!” 29 Higgs family buried him in a cemetery in his hometown Poughkeepsie, New York. Nolan also argued that Higgs was unfairly sentenced, since the actual gunman is serving a life sentence. Higgs' execution went forward despite his attorney, Shawn Nolan's appeal to delay the proceeding because of Higgs' Covid-19 diagnosis. "I did not order the murders," the report said. His last few words were “I'd like to say I am an innocent man," he said, mentioning the three women by name. WASHINGTON The Trump administration executed Dustin J. Higgs' victims were Tamika Black, Tanji Jackson, and Mishann Chinn. Prosecutors pushed for Higgs to be sentenced to death, despite the fact he did not pull the trigger. He had been convicted of kidnapping and murdering three women in 1996. Higgs was found guilty of three counts each of first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree murder committed during a kidnapping, and kidnapping resulting in death, along with firearms charges. He is the 13th and last federal death row inmate to be executed since the Justice Department restarted federal executions in July 2019. Tamika Black, Tanji Jackson, and Mishann Chinn were all shot and killed near the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, on the Patuxent Research Refuge in Prince. “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.” - Martin Luther Kingĭustin Higgs, 48 years-old, was injected with lethal dose of barbiturate at the Department of Justice’s execution chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana on Jan.
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