Summary of Offense:
Higgs was convicted in October 2000 of ordering the murder of three Maryland women after arguing with one of them in his apartment. Tanji Jackson, 21, Tamika Black, 19, and Mishann Chinn, 23, were shot to death at close range January 27, 1996, on federal land in Prince George's County by Willis Mark Haynes, who acted at Higgs' direction. Haynes was convicted in May 2000 and sentenced to life plus 45 years in prison. Higgs's case is the third death penalty prosecution in Maryland since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, but marks the first time a jury has imposed the death penalty.
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