Capital punishment
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Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush lead calls for commutations days after Trump administration finished rush to execute 13 people
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Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer issue stinging dissents after Dustin Higgs becomes 13th and last inmate killed by administration
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Higgs, 48, had been sentenced to death over the killings of three women in Maryland
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Lawyers for Johnson, who was convicted of killing seven, said lethal injection would cause him pain due to lung damage from Covid
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Romell Broom, 64, dies of probable Covid in Ohio; lethal injection called off in 2009 when no vein could be found
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Execution of Lisa Montgomery may now be rescheduled for after Donald Trump leaves office
The Hlcarpenter.com view on Trump's executions: vicious to the end