![]() It’s past time we join 106 countries around the world that have already banned the death penalty, and focus our criminal justice system on repairing harm and making our communities safer. earlier this week ruled both Johnson and Dustin Higgs, initially slated to die on Friday, would be allowed to live until at least March so that they can recover. While progressive prosecutors can employ prosecutorial discretion to refuse to seek the death penalty, there remains a need to abolish capital punishment at both the state and federal level. ![]() We applaud Congresswoman Pressley and Senator Durbin for reintroducing legislation to end the Federal Death Penalty. Next came Orlando Hall, followed by Brandon. Life Inside Perspectives from those who work and live in the criminal justice system. The two men argued that the lung damage caused by the infections. Justin Higgs and Corey Johnson tested positive for COVID-19 in mid-December, roughly a month prior to their scheduled execution dates. While Bourgeois was sentenced to death for the despicable abuse and killing of his own 2-year-old daughter, Cory Johnson and Dustin John Higgs were convicted of multiple murders. They were all friends of mine who became casualties of the Trump administration’s execution spree shortly before he left office. A federal judge ordered a stay of execution Tuesday for two men on death row due to their recent COVID-19 infections, numerous sources reported. Higgs, 48, is the 13th federal inmate to. Next came Orlando Hall, followed by Brandon Bernard, Corey Johnson and Dustin Higgs. Billie Allen, center, with his friends on federal death row who were executed, from left: Orlando Hall, Corey Johnson, Dustin Higgs, Brandon Bernard and Christopher Andre Vialva. The United States executed Dustin Higgs early Saturday for his role in the 1996 kidnapping and murders of three women. That should give us all pause given the 173 people once on death row that have been exonerated since 1973. Now I have to find a way to keep fighting. Furthermore, the death penalty is irreversible. It has been shown to be arbitrary, racist, and exceedingly expensive. The death penalty has never been shown to enhance public safety. Despite a raging global pandemic, a worsening economic crisis, an assault on the nation’s Capitol and the prospect of invoking the 25th amendment to remove a President whose mental state has come into question, this Administration has decided executing three people is a priority during the waning days of this beleaguered presidency. “By the end of this week the federal government will have carried out more executions in the past 6 months than any year since 1896. ![]() SAN FRANCISCO – Today, Prosecutors Alliance of California Executive Director Cristine Soto DeBerry issued the following statement on the three executions the federal government plans to carry out this week, Lisa Montgomery (today, January 12), Corey Johnson (January 14), and Dustin Higgs (January 15): Condemned murderers Cory Johnson and Dustin Higgs were scheduled to die on 14 and 15 January respectively at an execution chamber in a prison at Terre Haute, in Indiana. ![]()
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