Instead of taking them home, Higgs drove them to a secluded spot in the Patuxent National Wildlife Refuge, federal land in Laurel. Haynes persuaded them to get into the vehicle. The three men chased after the women in Higgs’ van. Gloria said Jackson made threats as she left the apartment with the other women and appeared to write down the license plate number of Higgs’ van, angering him. Before dawn the next morning, an argument between Higgs and Jackson prompted her to grab a knife in the kitchen before Haynes persuaded her to drop it. 26, 1996, when he, Haynes and a third man, Victor Gloria, picked up the three women in Washington, D.C., and drove them to Higgs’ apartment in Laurel, Maryland, to drink alcohol and listen to music. His lawyers have argued it is “arbitrary and inequitable” to execute Higgs while Willis Haynes, the man who fatally shot the women in 1996, was spared a death sentence. Higgs, who was the third to receive a lethal injection this week at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, said nobody alleges he pulled the trigger. Higgs was sentenced to death for the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge, a crime that led to a life sentence for the man who fired the fatal shots. “I’d like to say I am an innocent man,” he said. In his final statement, Higgs was calm but defiant, mentioning the victims by name. Supreme Court cleared the way for 48-year-old Dustin Higgs to be put to death.įive hours after Higgs was initially set to be executed, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority cleared the way for lethal injections to proceed by overturning a stay ordered by a federal appeals court. government carried out its 13th and final execution under President Donald Trump’s administration early Saturday after the U.S.
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