There, Gloria said Higgs handed a pistol to Haynes and instructed him to kill the women. He said that when they found the women, Haynes persuaded them to get into the van with the men who drove them into the Patuxent National Wildlife Refuge. At the time, Gloria testified that Jackson had made a threat to Higgs, which prompted the men to follow them. According to a report, Higgs and his friends had been drinking and Jackson had rebuffed an advance from Higgs. The night before the murder and before the women left his apartment, Higgs and Jackson reportedly got into an argument. Higgs’ lawyers have argued that this fact alone should clear him for clemency. Though Higgs was convicted of overseeing the kidnapping and murder of the three women, there is no proof that he himself killed anyone - a fact no one has ever disputed, including both Haynes and Gloria, and prosecutors, New York Magazine reports. The victims 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. More than 20 years ago, a Maryland jury found him guilty of 15 counts for the first-degree murder and kidnapping of Tamika Black, Mishann Chinn, and Tanji Jackson in 1996. This week, Higgs is scheduled to be killed by the federal government. As a result, the Department of Justice announced plans last year to move ahead with six federal executions before the end of Trump’s presidency. The Trump administration has carried out an unprecedented number of federal executions after ending an informal 17-year moratorium on capital punishment. With six days left before President Donald Trump leaves office, the United States government is expected to execute Dustin Higgs on January 15.
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