Posted on 12/17/2020 7:47:06 PM PST by KingofZion
A federal death-row inmate scheduled to be executed days before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration has tested positive for the coronavirus, his attorney said Thursday.
Dustin John Higgs is one of several people on federal death row set to be executed during the presidential transition, which has drawn condemnation from attorneys and critics who argue against carrying out their sentenced before President Trump, who supports capital punishment, is replaced by Biden, who opposes it.
“Today, we were informed by the Bureau of Prisons that Dustin Higgs has tested positive for COVID-19,” Shawn Nolan, Higgs’s attorney, said in a statement. “This is surely the result of the super spreader executions that the government has rushed to undertake in the heart of a global pandemic.”
This news came a week after the Justice Department conducted back-to-back executions at the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., where federal death sentences are carried out. Officials also planned to execute Lisa Montgomery this month, but it was postponed to January after her lawyers said they contracted the virus after meeting with her.
*** Three additional federal executions are set for the week before the Jan. 20 inauguration, with Higgs’s being the last currently scheduled before Biden takes office. Higgs was sentenced to death for his role in the kidnapping and killing of three women. Nolan has said it would be wrong to execute Higgs while his friend, who actually shot the women, was convicted of murder but not sentenced to death.
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Fantastic! Now he can be a COVID-19 death!!
What does the SO called inauguration of Beijing Biden have to do with inmate’s COVID?
Deep State WP again.
I bet they won’t execute him while he’s sick. They’ll nurse him back to health, then kill him!
bet he is listed as a covid death too
Even more reason to exterminate him.
They should be happy, he’ll add to the Covid Death number/s
I'd have let the families go medieval on him...
He’s in luck, because a few days before Biden inauguration is never.
We don’t just live in interesting times.
We live in bizarre times.
Right now it’s all about stall tactics, hoping they can get
beyond January 20th.
[Fantastic! Now he can be a COVID-19 death!!]
It will make the DNC Media happy by giving them another story.
Dustin John Higgs kidnapped and murdered three women — Tamika Black, 19; Tanji Jackson, 21; and Mishann Chinn, 23.
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According to DOJ, the women were murdered by Higgs and his friends after one of the women rejected Higgs’ advances. So, does the punishment fit the crime?
WTH is a ‘super spreader execution’?
That’s for sure.
Laughing because the Post had to get Bidens name in there. which this guys execution nor the virus has anything to do with Biden.
I could barely even manage an internal smirk when I read your post.
It was so absurd, yet in the bizarre time we live in, entirely plausible.
Ok, let’s be fair with this guy considering...
Hang him upside down for a month, and if he’s covid free then Pardon him.
It kinda looks like God wants him dead too.
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