17/01/2021
Trump's death penalty spree ends with Dustin Higgs, days before Biden's inauguration
Dustin Higgs, an inmate on death row in Indiana, has died in the final federal ex*****on of the Trump presidency just days before he leaves office.
Higgs was convicted in the killings of three women in a wildlife refuge in 1996, but until his death denied ordering their murder.
He died by lethal injection at 01:23 local time (06:23 GMT) on Saturday.
His ex*****on is the 13th carried out since July when the US government ended a 17-year hiatus on federal ex*****ons.
It comes just days before President-elect Joe Biden, who is against the death penalty, is sworn in.