The case illustrates the gross shortcomings of the American justice system when it comes to African Americans, who are often forced to navigate a slew of legal traps, technicalities, and discrimination in the court system that keeps sends Black people to prison at a far higher rate than any other ethnicity. A petition for clemency was signed by nearly 2 million people and Higgs’ lawyers argued that “there no principled basis to execute” their client, given that another man is already serving a life sentence for the triple homicide for which he was convicted. The 48-year old father of one was pronounced dead at 1:23 am on Saturday, January 16 from lethal injection.
Dustin Higgs, an African American man from Poughkeepsie, New York, became the thirteenth federal inmate to meet his end at the hands of the state in the span of one year since Trump’s Department of Justice directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to resume federal executions in the summer of 2019.
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