Dustin Higgs was convicted and sentenced to the federal death penalty as an accomplice to the 1996 murders of Tanji Jackson, Tamika Black and Mishann Chinn. It was the first federal death sentence handed down in Maryland in the modern era. Dustin was not the person who actually shot the three women. In fact, it was Willis Haynes who pulled the trigger, and he was sentenced to life in prison plus 45 years after a separate jury spared him the death penalty for the crime. Dustin was executed on January 16, 2021. We must abolish the death penalty in the United States.

To learn more about his case, and to view more of Dustin's art work (pictured above), visit SaveDustinjHiggs.com.  View Dustin's clemency petition here.