Final execution under Trump is the 13th in just six months

MURDERER Dustin Higgs yesterday became the 13th prisoner to be executed in the US since July, when President Donald Trump lifted a 17-year pause on capital punishment by the federal government.

His administration has been criticised for its rush to carry out the sentences before Joe Biden, who is against the death penalty, takes over the Presidency this week. Trump dis regarded a 130year precedent not to carry out executions during a transition.

Higgs, pictured, was the last prisoner to be executed under Trump. He died from a lethal injection in jail in Terre Haute, Indiana, the third inmate to be executed there in four days.

In his final words, the 48-year-old claimed he was innocent of ordering the murders of Tamika Black, 19, Mishann Chinn, 23, and Tanji Jackson, 21, who he kidnapped in 1996. Co-defendant Willis Haynes, who did not receive the death penalty, shot them after Higgs told him to.