INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Federal jury trials have been suspended through at least late January in Indiana's Southern District as coronavirus cases continue to surge statewide.
Terre Haute City Hall will close to public Monday
An order sent Friday by Chief Judge Jane E. Magnus-Stinson suspends all in-person jury trials in all divisions of the U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana until at least Jan. 25.
The Southern District has courts in Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Evansville and New Albany.
The District Court's order came the same day Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a new executive order reinstating limits on crowd sizes for nearly every Indiana county starting Sunday following weeks of surging COVID-19 cases.
Final federal execution under Trump administration carried out
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday carried out its 13th federal execution since July, an unprecedented run that concluded just five days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden — an opponent of the federal death penalty.
Dustin Higgs, convicted in the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge in 1996, was the third to receive a lethal injection this week at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
VCSC reports 6 new COVID-19 cases
by Web Desk / Jan 15, 2021
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — The Vigo County School Corporation on Friday reported the following positive COVID-19 cases among students and staff who were on school grounds during their infectious periods:
Students and staff have been notified, and will only need to quarantine if notified by a contact tracer.
Death penalty demonstrators reflect on their work, look to the future
by Lindsey Jackson / Jan 15, 2021
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) -- As time inched closer to the moment that the 13th and final execution under the Trump Administration would be enacted, protesters who had appeared at the Terre Haute Penitentiary for previous executions gathered once again to object to the impending lethal injection for Dustin Higgs.
Reverend Jack Sullivan's sister, Jennifer, was killed in Cleveland, Ohio, but her murderer was never revealed, he said. He understands the pain that victims' families feel, but he doesn't agree with the death penalty.