Randomized Trial

“Higgs is one of three prisoners the Justice Department plans to execute this week—the final wave of what has been an unparalleled exercise of capital punishment by a modern presidential administration. Before Trump, there hadn’t been a single federal execution since 2003 (states have executed hundreds of people in that time, however). Yet in the last six months, the administration has overseen the killing of 10 people—a stunning tally, given that the federal government had only executed 37 people in the century prior.” GQ: Death row inmate Dustin Higgs, who is scheduled for execution on Friday, talks about the randomness of the legal process that brought him to this point.