Out for Blood

As momentum builds to abolish the federal death penalty, the loved ones of those killed in Terre Haute have just started to grieve.

Higgs was sentenced to death for his role in a triple murder. A key witness later said the government’s case was “bullshit.”

Lisa Montgomery was executed early Wednesday as part of a wave of federal executions in the final months of the Trump administration.

The killings in Terre Haute may look like an aberration, but they are part of a violent tradition that Americans have long accepted.

In the shadow of Trump’s execution spree, the families of the condemned share a particular trauma that few can understand.

At age 18, Bernard was an accomplice to a murder. Now five jurors who sentenced him to death have changed their minds.

Orlando Hall, among the first to be condemned under the 1994 Crime Bill, will be the eighth person executed on federal death row this year.

Less than a week after executing Christopher Vialva in front of his mother and aunt, the DOJ announced it would kill Orlando Hall next.

Vialva is the first Black man to face execution during Trump’s killing spree. He is set to die on September 24.

More federal executions have been carried out in 2020 than in the past 57 years combined.