![]() ![]() The ACLU released a statement after Higgs’ execution urging Biden to invoke his presidential powers after he is sworn in. Pressure is already building on Biden to follow through on pledges to end the federal death penalty. “The federal government should not be needlessly taking more Black lives, and to do so on my father’s birthday would be shameful,” he wrote. With last-minute appeals, it was delayed into early Saturday. and Coretta Scott King, noted that Higgs, a Black man, was scheduled to die Friday - his father’s birthday. In an opinion piece in The Washington Post earlier this week, Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of Martin Luther King Jr. Cleveland’s was also the last presidency during which the number of civilians executed federally was in the double digits in one year, 1896. government executed federal inmates during a presidential transition, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Not since the waning days of Grover Cleveland’s presidency in the late 1800s has the U.S. When a marshal called from a death-chamber phone to ask if there were any impediments to proceeding with Higgs’ execution, he kept his mask on and shoved the receiver under it. In the early Saturday execution of Higgs, officials inside the execution chamber were more diligent about their keeping masks on after a federal judge expressed concern that officials at Johnson’s execution were lax about coronavirus precautions. Among those prisoners who got COVID-19 last month were Higgs and former drug trafficker Corey Johnson, who was executed Thursday. Federal executions began as the coronavirus pandemic raged through prisons nationwide. ![]()
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