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This Saturday, four days before Joe Biden came to power, United States executed in Indiana to Dustin Higgs, the last federal death row inmate to receive the lethal injection under President Donald Trump.
Higgs was the thirteenth inmate executed at the federal level within six months of the Trump administration resuming in July 2020 the executions of criminals who were on the death row federal.
Dustin Higgs was convicted by order the murder of three women in the Washington DC area., In 1996 i until the time of his death he denied having committed the homicides.
According to Higgs’ lawyers, the man who shot at this event, Willis Haynes, He evaded the death penalty and was sentenced instead to life imprisonment.
In particular, Joe Biden promise to abolish the death penalty and give incentives in the states for stop looking for such sentences.
Biden could keep his promise as of now the Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court that restore the death sentence against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, One of the perpetrators of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), vIn addition to the 50 states in the United States, they have already abolished the death penalty on their territory, While another 12 have been without an execution for more than ten years.
The organization has also noted that the ten executions completed at the federal level over the past year, made 2020 the year in which the most federal death penalty sentences have been carried out in 125 years.
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