Posted on 12/18/2020 4:47:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON -- A federal prisoner scheduled to be executed just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office has tested positive for coronavirus, his lawyer said Thursday.
The Bureau of Prisons notified attorneys for Dustin John Higgs on Thursday that their client had tested positive for the virus, his attorney Devon Porter said during a court hearing Thursday afternoon.
The revelation comes amid concern about an exploding number of coronavirus cases in the federal prison system and specifically at the complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, where the executions are carried out. It is the only federal death row.
Higgs is scheduled to be executed Jan. 15, just five days before death-penalty opponent Joe Biden’s inauguration.
“This is surely the result of the super spreader executions that the government has rushed to undertake in the heart of a global pandemic. Following the two executions that took place last week and one other two weeks prior, the COVID numbers at the federal prison in Terre Haute spiked enormously,” one of Higgs' lawyers, Shawn Nolan, said in a statement. "Now our client is sick. We have asked the government to withdraw the execution date and we will ask the courts to intervene if they do not.”
Higgs was convicted of ordering the 1996 murders of three women, Tamika Black, Mishann Chinn and Tanji Jackson, at a federal wildlife center near Beltsville, Maryland. Prosecutors say Higgs and two others abducted the women after Higgs became enraged because one of the women rebuffed his advances at party.
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So one less Covid spreader? Where is the problem here?
if they go ahead they’ll list the cause of death as corona
Ach! Another Wuhan Flu death for the roster.
Give him the permanent cure.
He has earned it in spades.
Who cares?..... G’tr done!!
A couple shots of RAID or ROUND-UP should take care of that so that he can be healthy enough to be whacked.
Interesting - an inmate scheduled for execution is usually isolated and has few one on one contacts. His contact with the virus should be very easy to find.
“His contact with the virus should be very easy to find.”
Alternatively, the test result was a false positive.
So what is the end game here?
He is too sick to be executed?
If that is a point they are trying to make, that they are getting covid, and can’t be executed then prior to their execution they need to be in isolation with ZERO contact from anyone - including their attorneys.
So he’s the victim while those he murdered are just a statistic. I hope his sentence gets carried out before the lunatics take charge.
Keep him alive for as long as possible, strap him to a gurney, extract his blood for the antibodies...rinse, repeat...forever.
Good way for him to repay his debt to society.
I don’t know.
Kind of torn here.
On the one hand it is the ultimate cure.
On the other, Fauci might get ideas and start recommending this fie everyone.
Then again, the vaccine’s side effects are as bad as reported and we are all forced to take it, he may have already reached this conclusion.
So?
I suppose the inference is that you can’t execute a man who has coronavirus. Well, that makes perfect sense, in this bizarro world.
I don’t care. Throw the switch.
Why would they test him for the virus? And why is this news?
This might work too.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_flYlbBpSok
What absolute woke idiocy. He is going to be executed. Who cares if he has a cold?
Put him out of his misery.
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