U.S. carries out 13th and final execution during Trump administration, most for any presidency in more than 120 years

TERRE HAUTE, Indiana — The Trump administration has carried out its 13th and final federal execution, five days before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in.

The execution early Saturday of Dustin Higgs concludes an unprecedented run of executions since July, when Trump resumed the federal death penalty after a 17-year hiatus.

Biden has signaled he’ll end federal executions.

The 48-year-old Higgs was convicted in the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge.

He was the third inmate to receive a lethal injection this week at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

A December clemency petition for Higgs said he had been a model prisoner and was a dedicated father to a son born shortly after his arrest.