Willis Haynes: Last News

Donald Trump’s presidency has taken place – with the condemned man insisting to the last that he was innocent.Dustin Higgs, 48, who was suffering from coronavirus at the time of his execution, was sentenced to death in 2001 for his part in the 1996 kidnapping and murder of three women on a federal wildlife reserve in the state of Maryland in 1996.He died by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at 1.23am on Saturday January 16.His last words were a calm denial of the crime. "I'd like to say I am an innocent man," he said.Listing the names of the three women who were killed, he added: ”I did not order the murders.”Tanji Jackson, Tamika Black and Mishann Chinn were shot dead by Willis Haynes, who was sentenced to life plus 45 years.

another death row inmate had been executed the day before.In 2000 a Maryland jury found Higgs guilty of the first-degree murder and kidnapping of Tamika Black, Mishann Chinn, and Tanji Jackson in 1996.The three women had been fatally shot after partying with Higgs and two of his friends, Willis Haynes, and Victor Gloria at Higgs' apartment the night before the murder.Although Higgs was convicted of overseeing the kidnapping and murder of the three women, he did not personally kill any of them which his lawyers have said should clear him for clemency.Higgs' lawyers argued it was "arbitrary and inequitable" to execute Higgs while Willis Haynes, the man who fired the shots that killed the women, was spared a death sentence.