US carries out 13th and final execution under Trump administration
Higgs is the 13th person executed by the US government in an extraordinary spree begun last summer by Trump. Prior to Trump, the federal government had executed only three people since 1963.
Reverend Sylvester Edwards, President of the Terre Haute NAACP, stands near the Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute, to express his opposition to the death penalty and execution of Daniel Lewis Lee. July 13, 2020(photo credit: BRYAN WOOLSTON/REUTERS)ByREUTERS
