Members of an inner-city gang in Richmond, Va. Higgs was formally sentenced to death on Dec. Higgs' case is the third death penalty prosecution in Maryland since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, but marks the first time a jury has imposed the death penalty.
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The triggerman, Willis Mark Haynes, was convicted in May 2000 and sentenced to life plus 45 years in prison. Higgs was convicted in October 2000 of ordering the 1996 murder of three Maryland women after arguing with one of them in his apartment. The judge stayed his execution date allowing him to file an appeal. Hammer then filed a clemency petition and a request to appeal. The third Circuit allowed him to waive his appeal and an execution date of Nov. He was sentenced to death on July 24, 1998. Hammer was convicted of murder for killing a federal prison inmate at the federal penitentiary at Allenwood, Pa., where Hammer was serving a 1,200-year Oklahoma state sentence.
In a separate trial, Webster was sentenced to death in June 1996. Hall was sentenced to death in November 1995. The two were charged in Fort Worth, Texas, with the abduction, sexual assault and beating murder of a 16-year-old girl. Four teen-agers have also pleaded guilty to federal charges relating to the crime, but have not yet been sentenced. Attorneys for Vialva and Bernard said they would appeal the sentences to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Although a sentence has not been formally entered, the jury has recommended a death sentence for both defendants. An appeal before the Eleventh Circuit is pending.Ī federal jury in Waco, Texas, convicted the two in June 2000 for the kidnapping and murder of an Iowa couple visiting central Texas. Allen was sentenced to death by a jury on March 10, 1998, and Holder was sentenced to death by a jury on April 3, 1998.īattle, who was incarcerated in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Ga., and had a history of psychiatric problems, was sentenced to death in March 1997 for the murder of a prison guard. Johnson’s attorneys have said he is not eligible for the death penalty because of an intellectual disability.The two were convicted in the fatal shooting of a bank guard during a robbery in St.
Nolan tells TIME they plan to renew that claim since Higgs himself has now tested positive. Earlier this week, a judge dismissed a claim from Higgs’s legal team that argued executing Higgs amid the COVID-19 pandemic would be unconstitutional. The prison in Terre Haute, where all the federal executions take place, has also experienced an ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, and Nolan alleges that the prison’s COVID-19 numbers have “spiked enormously” in the weeks following the recent executions. The statement said inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 or who are symptomatic are being placed in isolation. When asked for comment, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed to TIME that inmates on federal death row, known as the Special Confinement Unit (SCU), have tested positive for COVID-19 but declined to provide further information, citing “pending litigation and privacy interests.” The BOP also said an employee in the SCU has tested positive but had no contact with the executions in November and December.
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