"The government completed its unprecedented slaughter of 13 human beings tonight by killing Dustin Higgs, a Black man who never killed anyone, on Martin Luther King's birthday," Shawn Nolan, one of Higgs' lawyers, said in a statement following the execution.
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Speeding driver killed carer and left disabled pal 'learning to walk for second time' Higgs, 48, always denied the accusation he was a ringleader, saying he had been set up and was merely a witness to the crime.
Haynes, who confessed to being the shooter, was sentenced to life in prison while Higgs was sentenced to death in a separate trial, a disparity that his lawyers say was grounds for clemency. Prosecutors said Higgs gave Haynes a gun and told him to shoot the three women. Higgs was convicted for his role in the kidnap in murder - the prosecution claiming he oversaw and egged on the killings.Īfter a failed triple date with the three women, Higgs and accomplice, Haynes, had offered to drive them home but instead took them to the wildlife reserve. The key argument against his execution focused on that it was another man - Willis Mark Haynes - who had shot and killed the trio at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center nearly 30 years ago. That feature of Higgs' death penalty case was among a string of concerns which had long attracted controversy and pleas for clemency. However he did not personally shoot or kill any of the three women - the man who did was sentenced to life in prison. Higgs was present when the three women were shot to death after a failed date on a wildlife reserve in Maryland in 1996.
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