![]() “I was like, ‘How did you keep that from me?’ He said because he knew I wouldn’t approve, so he never brought it around me at all.” But a worse nightmare unfolded in 1998, when Higgs was charged as a suspect in a horrific triple murder. Wingate had moved back to New York when she got a phone call in 1996 saying that Higgs had been arrested for dealing drugs. “That was our original goal.” But eventually Higgs started to pull away from her. ![]() I’ll do the makeup and I’ll do the embalming and all that,’” Wingate said. “I said, ‘OK, well, you can come and we can start this family business. Higgs wanted to open a barbershop and Wingate wanted to be a funeral director. Wingate plans to be a witness.įor a time, their plans for the future were intertwined. On Friday, after the scheduled execution of Corey Johnson on January 14, Higgs is set to be the last person to die in Trump’s killing spree. ![]() On November 20, the day after his friend Orlando Hall died by lethal injection, Higgs got an execution date himself. After the Trump administration restarted executions last summer following a 17-year pause, Higgs saw 10 of his neighbors taken to their deaths. Higgs arrived on federal death row in January 2001, just five months before the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. When the prison first opened more than 75 years ago, the meeting of Highway 41 and Old State Road 40 made Terre Haute the “Crossroads of America” - a convenient location to bring people in federal custody from all over the country. The execution chamber was constructed just after the passage of the 1994 crime bill, but the surrounding penitentiary predates even the interstate. Montgomery, the only woman under a federal death sentence, was being held in a small room adjacent to it. Some 3 miles in the opposite direction, in a brick building on the banks of the Wabash River, is the federal death chamber. The interstate leads all the way to Baltimore, where Wingate’s brother, Dustin Higgs, had been sentenced to die more than 20 years earlier. The hotel sits at the intersection of U.S. Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Higgs agreed to keep working together on these and other shared priorities.On the night Lisa Montgomery was executed by the Trump administration, Alexa Cave Wingate arrived at the Springhill Suites in Terre Haute, Indiana, at 9 p.m. The leaders also discussed the importance of protecting language rights and official bilingualism in the province and strengthening health care. The leaders spoke about small modular reactors, liquified natural gas, and the importance of continued collaboration on the Atlantic Loop to support the phase-out of coal, achieve net-zero, ensure energy security, and create new opportunities for people and businesses in the region. The Prime Minister and the Premier discussed ways the federal and provincial governments can continue to work together to improve energy security and resiliency while reducing costs for consumers by supporting a clean electric grid in Atlantic Canada. The Prime Minister was also in Oromocto to announce new federal funding to help connect rural homes across Canada to high-speed Internet, including more than 16,000 homes in New Brunswick. Today, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs to discuss energy issues, the Atlantic Loop, and other shared priorities.
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