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• DUSTIN HIGGS CRIME TRIAL

District Judge Peter Messitte, who presided over Higgs's trial wrote on 29 December that he had received "a fair trial and was convicted and sentenced to death by a unanimous jury for a despicable crime." Trump Admin Spent Millions Carrying Out Federal Executions In A Pandemic.Corey Johnson's Final Words Before Execution of Death Row Inmate.Supreme Court's Sotomayor Says Trump Admin Executions Are 'Not Justice'.In the petition to commute his sentence of death and/or grant a 90-day reprieve, his lawyers said that Higgs' "demonstrated record of positive adjustment makes him particularly well-suited to peacefully live out the remainder of his life in custody." In a plea for clemency, Higgs's lawyers had argued that it was "arbitrary and inequitable" that Higgs was punished more severely than the man who pulled the trigger, given that it was "undisputed" that Higgs "did not kill anyone." Haynes, was sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting the victims, while Higgs was prosecuted for giving the order for the killings. Gloria testified that Higgs had handed his pistol to Haynes, who shot all three women. The jury heard how Higgs, Willis Mark Haynes, and a third man, Victor Gloria, had picked up the women on Januand drove them to Higgs's apartment in Laurel, Maryland.įollowing an altercation between Higgs and Jackson, the men chased the women after they left the apartment and persuaded them to get into a vehicle belonging to Higgs, who drove them to the Patuxent national wildlife refuge, the court heard. Read more Petition to Halt Dustin Higgs' Execution Amasses Over 1.5M SignaturesĪ federal jury in Maryland had convicted Higgs in October 2000 of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the killings of Tamika Black, aged 19, Mishann Chinn, 23, and Tanji Jackson, 21.