TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Jan 14, 2021

American Bar Association President Patricia Lee Refo on Tuesday urged acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen to delay the federal executions scheduled for this week. Corey Johnson is scheduled to die by lethal injection this evening for his role in a gang implicated in 10 murders in 1992. Dustin Higgs is scheduled to be executed on Friday for kidnapping and killing three young women on federal land in 1996. Lisa Montgomery was executed on Tuesday. In her letter, Refo writes that the executions to be carried out in Terre Haute “create a substantial risk of COVID-19 case transmission at the prison and in the surrounding communities.”