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This innocent man only has hours to live please sign and call and email, help items are in my linktree here please do everything you can to help
get dustin higgs off death row.
petitions to sign:
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/save-dustin-higgs/
http://www.savedustinjhiggs.com/
https://www.change.org/p/help-save-dustin-john-higgs?recruiter=1168615689&recruited_by_id=c430a5a0-3c1e-11eb-a8dd-37a6bf7ca6e3
abolish the death penalty:
http://deathpenaltyaction.org/take-action
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-congress-abolish-the-federal-death-penalty/
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/abolish-the-death-penalty-3
https://www.change.org/p/abolish-the-death-penalty-in-the-united-states
learn about this case:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914b0a8add7b04934754303/amp
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-4th-circuit/1133132.html
Please spread awareness about this!
it makes me sick to my stomach that we couldn't save corey, so please help us save dustin higgs.
Rest in Peace Dustin Higgs (March 10th, 1972 - January 16th, 2021)
tw : execution, mention of murder
take action for dustin higgs
i have only seen a few petitions for dustin higgs but i’m linking them below. if you know of anymore; PLEASE LINK THEM.
DUSTIN HIGGS IS NOT GUILTY OF THE CRIMES HE IS BEING EXECUTED FOR. PLEASE, TAKE A FEW SECONDS AND SIGN TO HELP SAVE HIM. TIME IS RUNNING OUT.
do not sign any white house petitions if you are not a united states citizen. do not bother using fake zip codes on those petitions. one false signature and the whole thing could be seen as invalid.
action network
change.org
change.org ii
white house ( US CITIZENS ONLY )
and if you have the means, here is the link of a paypal run by a member of his family
again, if you have more please link them. sign, share, discuss and spread awareness. don't wait until it's too late.
On January 13th, Lisa Montgomery was executed. The Supreme Court denied a competency hearing to prove her severe mental illness, which would have made her ineligible for the death penalty.
On January 14th, Corey Johnson was executed. The Supreme Court denied claims by Johnson's legal team of an intellectual disability and his Covid-19 diagnosis, arguing that his infection paired with a lethal injection would amount to a cruel and unusual punishment.
On January 15th, Dustin Higgs' execution went forward despite his attorney's appeal to delay the proceeding because of his Covid-19 diagnosis. His attorney also argued that Higgs was unfairly sentenced, since the actual gunman is only serving a life sentence.
The reality is that no federal government should be able to push up dates of execution so close together, ignore paperwork proving their execution to be illegal, and then carry out that execution regardless. Not to mention the injustices potentially carried out in the first place when a death sentence is convicted. As much as we focus on the individual lives of each execution, it is much more imperative to focus on the larger issue. capital punishment needs to abolished completely, for everyone on Death Row.
There will always be criminals so gruesome the public believes that 'yes, that bastard deserves death'. The issue with this is the argument on capital punishment has completely shifted to the wrong-doer, as if they are the deciders of why we have death row. In debating on the death penalty the question should never be do they deserve to die, but rather do we deserve to kill them. To put life or death in someone else's hands and decide based on that individual's character whether someone is deserving of life is immoral in itself. No one should ever be given that opportunity.
These executions won't be stopped unless there is something done. Joe Biden has pledged to abolish the death penalty and I encourage everyone to hold him to this. There is only one way to truly change the nation, and that is together.