Cave greeted arrivals at the funeral home in downtown Poughkeepsie in a white face mask with a black slogan: "ABOLISH the DEATH PENALTY." Biden, a Democrat who took office five days after the execution, has said he will seek to abolish the federal death penalty and encourage states to follow suit.Īt the viewing of the body before the burial, some of Higgs' family said they would hold Biden to his promise. If President Joe Biden has his way, Higgs could turn out to be the last person ever executed by the U.S.
government revived executions last summer under Trump, a Republican and long-standing proponent of capital punishment, saying that it was authorized by Congress and owed to the victims of the "worst criminals." Before that, the federal government had only executed three people since 1963, though a minority of states still carry out executions each year. "They are now going to go through the pain we experienced." "On one hand, I felt we were finally going to get justice, but on the other, I felt sad for your family," the statement said.
In a statement released just after Higgs' execution, a sister of Jackson spoke of her conflicting emotions. The sentencing disparity has pained Higgs' relatives. Higgs, who prosecutors said handed Haynes his gun and ordered him to kill, was sentenced to death.
Haynes, who confessed to shooting the women, received life in prison. Higgs and an accomplice, Willis Haynes, were convicted at separate trials for the 1996 murders of Tanji Jackson, 21 Tamika Black, 19, and Mishann Chinn, 23, on a federal wildlife refuge in Maryland. On Friday, Cave and her family buried him atop a snow-whitened hill in a cemetery in his hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York.
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