US DOJ Schedules 3 More Well Deserved Executions

Jerry Dunleavy reports for the Washington Examiner that the Department of Justice has scheduled three more federal executions at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Alfred Bourgeois, who was convicted in 2004 of abusing, torturing, and beating to death his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter in 2002 by punching her in the face, whipping her with a cord, burning her foot with a lighter, and smashing the back of her head against his truck until she died, is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 11.

Cory Johnson, a drug trafficker convicted in 1993 for the murder of seven people in 1992 during a killing spree related to what he saw as insults or rivalries in the drug trade, including killing one person at close range and another who he thought had failed to pay for crack cocaine, along with that victim’s sister and a friend, is scheduled to receive the death penalty on Jan. 14, 2021.

Dustin Higgs, who was convicted in 2000 for the kidnapping and murder of three women in 1996, when Higgs was rejected by one of the women at a party, offered the women a ride home, instead drove them to a secluded road and ordered his friend to kill them, which he did by shooting two in the chest and one in the back of the head, is scheduled to be put to death on Jan. 15, 2021.