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. The 48-year old father of one was pronounced
The Execution of Dustin Higgs and the Tradition of Capital Punishment
Dustin Higgs proclaimed his innocence until the end, but neither his nor his lawyers’ pleas for clemency were enough to overcome the three-hundred-year momentum of capitalism’s most enduring tradition.