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Two death row executions delayed to give killers time to recover from Covid

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Cory Johnson and Dustin Higgs were due to be Donald Trump's final executions before he leaves the White House, but lawyers argue their Covid-damaged lungs would mean a lethal injection would be torture
The executions of two condemned murderers have been delayed for months while they recover from Covid-19.
Inmates Cory Johnson and Dustin Higgs had been scheduled to die on Thursday and Friday at the Justice Department's execution chamber in its prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
However, Judge Tanya Chutkan of the US District Court in Washington ordered the US Department of Justice extend their time on death row until at least March 16.
Their lawyers had argued the virus has damaged their lung tissue and giving them the lethal injection would cause such severe pain it would be like torture.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/trumps-final-two-executions-delayed-23308688

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Cory Johnson (l) and Dustin John Higgs

This moves the killing of the inmates into the presidency of Joe Biden who is known to be against capital punishment. Inmates cannot be executed by any state of the European Union as they are bound by the European Convention on Human Rights.
 
EU rights don't exist anywhere outside the EU.
 
Jean-s said:
Sunni death squads either shoot Shia children or decapitate them while alive.
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Sure... because that is not a completely whack analogy...
 
Wayne Jr said:
EU rights don't exist anywhere outside the EU.
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it’s stupid too. Because the EU adopted this as part of a scheme to assert to the people that they were not partners in government. Instead the liberal intelligencia would define what policy is and parliaments exist to rubber stamp it.

most people in Britain and France didn’t want the death penalty to end.
 
Jean-s said:
Sunni death squads either shoot Shia children or decapitate them while alive.
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what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
 
Let's hope they make it. The US federal government just executed a very mentally ill woman who was sexually tortured as a child.
 
Antiwar said:
Both are execution.
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One of an innocent and one of a guilty person.

Dying of old age and being shot when you are 20 are both deaths, but they are not comparable
 
GolfingChef said:
One of an innocent and one of a guilty person.

Dying of old age and being shot when you are 20 are both deaths, but they are not comparable
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Who would Jesus execute?
 
Antiwar said:
Who would Jesus execute?
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Well, considering that Jesus is God, and God instituted the death penalty, I would say just about anyone that is guilty.

Heck, read the book of Revelations and see how many people are killed in it.
 
Who is Cory Johnson?
www.thesun.co.uk

Who was Corey Johnson and what did he do?

CONVICTED killer Corey Johnson murdered at least seven people in Virginia in 1992. He was executed for his brutal crimes on January 14 after being sentenced to death three decades ago. Who was Core…
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Johnson is sitting on death row for killing people along with his partners who resided within the Richmond, Virginia area in relation to their drug-trafficking.
The gang was known as the “Newtowne Gang” as they expanded their conspiracy operations to a town in Richmond of the same name.

The victims were brutally slain as they were thought to be suspects of treachery or “competitors” in the drug business.
Johnson shot one victim at close range after ordering him to place his head on a car steering wheel, according to the Justice department.


He shot and killed another victim at his home when he failed to pay for crack cocaine — and Johnson also murdered the victim’s sister and a male acquaintance.


In February 1993, a jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found Johnson guilty of numerous federal offenses, including seven counts of capital murder.
 
Who is Dustin John Higgs
www.thesun.co.uk

When was Dustin John Higgs executed and what did he do?

DUSTIN John Higgs was a federal prisoner who was executed on Saturday morning for his role in the 1996 murder of three black women in Maryland. The 48-year-old – who was one of 53 prisoners o…
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Dustin John Higgs is an inmate on death row who is due to be executed on January 15, 2021.
Higgs, 48, was the first federal inmate to contract Covid.
Higgs' attorneys have called on the Department of Justice to withdraw his execution date after he became sick with the virus.

Higgs is on death row for kidnapping and murdering three women - 19-year-old Tamika Black, 21-year-old Tanji Jackson, and 23-year-old Mishann Chinn - in Maryland.
In January 1996, Higgs and two friends drove from Washington, DC to Maryland to pick up Black, Jackson, and Chinn, whom Higgs had invited to his apartment in Laurel, Maryland.
Once at the apartment, Higgs made advances towards Jackson, which she rejected, and the girls ultimately all left together.


Higgs offered to take the women back to Washington DC, but instead, a secluded area in the Patuxent National Wildlife Refuge, ordered the women out of the vehicle, gave a gun to one of the friends, and said, “better make sure they’re dead.”
One of Higgs' friends shot Black and Jackson in the chest and back, and then shot Chinn in the back of the head, killing all three women.


On October 11, 2000, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland found Higgs guilty of numerous federal offenses.
These offenses including three counts of first-degree premeditated murder, three counts of first-degree felony murder, and three counts of kidnapping resulting in death.
 
Antiwar said:
Let's hope they make it. The US federal government just executed a very mentally ill woman who was sexually tortured as a child.
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They did it? Didn’t know. Read her story and it was horrible.
 
"We need them healthy so we can kill them!"
 
Antiwar said:
Let's hope they make it. The US federal government just executed a very mentally ill woman who was sexually tortured as a child.
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Why did they execute her?
 
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