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The government killed Dustin Higgs after the Supreme Court late Friday reversed lower-court orders that had put the execution on hold and drawing strongly worded dissents from two justices (…

The federal government Thursday night executed Corey Johnson despite evidence and arguments he had intellectual disabilities and a federal district court's ruling that the execution would be "…

Lisa Montgomery, 52, was killed by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, and pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. (Eastern Time) Wednesday (access…

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ordered a stay of execution for Cory Johnson and Dustin Higgs, both of whom were scheduled to be executed on Thursday and…

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ordered a stay of execution for Cory Johnson and Dustin Higgs, both of whom were scheduled to be executed on Thursday and Friday,…

Maryland, where a federal jury returned a death sentence against Dustin Higgs in 2000, abolished capital punishment in 2013. That led the government to ask the court to amend its prior judgment and direct that Higgs be executed in Indiana, under Indiana law. His execution is set for January 15,…

Dustin Higgs Execution Roadblock Gov't Appeal To Be Heard Twelve Days After Scheduled Execution Date

Maryland, where a federal jury returned a death sentence against Dustin Higgs in 2000, abolished capital punishment in 2013. That led the government to ask the court to amend its prior…

Lisa Montgomery, 52, was killed by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, and pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. (Eastern Time) Wednesday (article available here). She…

A Maryland federal court stated it cannot direct an upcoming execution to be carried out in the government’s Indiana death chamber, adding a new hurdle to the Trump administration’s plans to execute three inmates before Inauguration Day (article available…

Today, the Chief Justice of the United States released the 2020 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary. In the report, Chief Justice John Roberts compared the often heroic efforts to keep the federal…