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The U.S. government has executed Dustin Higgs, the last prisoner to be executed during the Trump administration, and the 13th in the span of six months.
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The Supreme Court declined to stop the execution, although some justices dissented, noting that before the first of the 13, it had been 17 years since a federal execution had been carried out.
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the Government should have proceeded with some measure of restraint to ensure it did so lawfully."
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In a statement following the execution, Shawn Nolan, an attorney for Higgs, called him "a fine man, a terrific father, brother, and nephew" who "spent decades on death row in solitary confinement helping others around him, while working tirelessly to fight his unjust convictions."
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"There was no reason to kill him, particularly during the pandemic and when he, himself, was sick with COVID that he contracted because of these irresponsible, superspreader executions,"
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Higgs was one of three people executed by the federal government this week.
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The executions come days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has opposed the federal death penalty.
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On Monday, Senate Democrats unveiled legislation that would abolish it.
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