>> "INDIANA NEWSDESK" IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY: >>> COMING UP ON "INDIANA NEWSDESK," THE STATE CONTINUES TO UPDATE ITS PLAN FOR WHO CAN REGISTER FOR THE COVID-19 VACCINE AND WHEN.

>> WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHEN WE'RE GOING TO GET A BIG BUMP IN OUR VACCINE DOSAGES.

I MEAN, WE HAVE CONSISTENTLY BEEN TOLD THROUGH THE END OF JANUARY, 79,000 DOSES A WEEK.

>> AHEAD WHO IS ELIGIBLE NOW, AND WHEN WILL THE STATE OPEN UP THE VACCINE TO MORE HOOSIERS.

>>> THE HOW IMPEACHED PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THE WAKE OF LAST WEEK'S INSURRECTION AT THE CAPITOL.

COMING UP, HOW INDIANA'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION VOTED AND WHAT IT MEANS WITH LESS THAN A WEEK REMAINING BEFORE JOE BIDEN IS SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT.

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>>> THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CARRIED OUT MORE EXECUTIONS THIS WEEK AT THE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN TERRE HAUTE, INCLUDING THE FIRST WOMAN IN NEARLY 70 YEARS.

WILL THE END OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BRING A HALT TO FEDERAL EXECUTIONS?

THESE STORIES, PLUS THE LATEST NEWS HEAD LINES FROM ACROSS THE STATE, RIGHT NOW, ON "INDIANA NEWSDESK."

♪ >>> WELCOME TO "INDIANA NEWSDESK."

I'M JOE HREN.

WELL, ABOUT A QUARTER MILLION HOOSIERS HAVE REGISTERED FOR THE COVID-19 VACCINE.

THE STATE CONTINUES TO EXPAND ELIGIBILITY AND PEOPLE AGE 70 AND OLDER CAN NOW SIGN UP FOR AN APPOINTMENT.

THE STATE'S TOP HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY THEY ARE PRIORITIZING OLDER HOOSIERS BECAUSE THEY ARE MOST LIKELY TO BE HOSPITALIZED OR DIE FROM THE VIRUS BUT AS PAT BEANE REPORTS SHH CRITICS ARE FRUSTRATE -- SOME CRITICS ARE FRUSTRATED BECAUSE THEY SAY THE STATE IS NOT FOLLOWING THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL.

>> AND IT STATE OFFICIALS SAY THEIR COVID-19 VACCINE ROLLOUT PLAN IS WORKING AS DESIGNED, BUT THERE'S STILL NO WORD WHEN YOUNGER HOOSIERS AND FRONT-LINE WORKERS AND THOSE WHO ARE AT HIGHER RISK WILL GET IT.

IT'S DIFFERENT FROM GUIDANCE ISSUED THIS WEEK BY THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION.

>> OUR GOAL IS TO REDUCE DEATHS AND HOPPIZATIONS AND THAT MAKES -- HOSPITALIZATIONS AND THAT MAKES IN THE RIGHT APPROACH.

OUR SYSTEM IS WORKING AND WE ARE GOING TO STICK WITH IT.

>> MORE THAN 78% OF THE STATE'S DEATHS ARE AMONG HOOSIERS AGE 70 AND OLDER.

BOX CAN'T PROVIDE A TOM LINE FOR WHEN MORE HOOSIERS WILL GET THE VACCINE.

>> WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHEN WE WILL GET A BIG BULL.

IN -- A BIG BUMP IN OUR VACCINE DOSAGES.

WE WERE CONSISTENTLY TOLD THROUGHOUT END OF JANUARY, 79,000 VACCINES A WEEK.

>> IF OTHERS LIKE JOHNSON & JOHNSON GET APPROVAL, THAT WILL HELP THE ROLLOUT.

A QUARTER OF A MILLION HOOSIERS RECEIVED THE FIRST CORONAVIRUS SO THE SHOT AND 50,000 HAVE GOTTEN THEIR SECOND.

FOR "INDIANA NEWSDESK," I'M PAT BEANE SNOG REGISTER AT OURSHOT.IN.GOV.

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>>> COVID-19 CASES, DEATHS, HOSPITALIZATIONS AND POSITIVITY RATES DECLINED NEARLY EVERY DAY THIS WEEK.

THIS IS ACCORDING TO THE INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

INDIANA BEGAN THE YEAR AVERAGING 74 DEATHS A DAY FROM THE VIRUS WITH A POSITIVITY RATE OF 16%.

NOW AS OF THURSDAY, THOSE AVERAGES WERE DOWN TO 42 DEATHS A DAY, WITH A 15.3% SEVEN DAY POSITIVITY RATE.

INDIANA'S AVERAGE NUMBER OF CASES DIPPED TO JUST UNDER 4600 AND HOSPITALIZATIONS HAVE FALLEN TO THEIR LOWEST NUMBER IN TWO MONTHS.

THE STATE HAS REPORTED MORE THAN 580,000 CASES AND ABOUT 9,000 DEATHS SINCE THE PANDEMIC BEGAN.

>>> WELL, LAWMAKERS ARE DEBATING WHETHER TO GIVE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO CANCEL A GOVERNOR'S PUBLIC EMERGENCY ORDER.

AS BRANNON SMITH REPORTS, THE LEGISLATION IS A DIRECT REACTION TO SOME LAWMAKERS' FRUSTRATION WITH THE GOVERNOR ERIC HOLCOMB DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

>> WHEN THE PANDEMIC STARTED IN MARCH, THE GOVERNOR USED THE POWER OF EXECUTIVES TO PUT COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS IN PLACE.

HE CAN DECLARE A PUBLIC EMERGENCY LIKE THE HEALTH EMERGENCY DURING THE PANDEMIC FOR 30 DAYS, AND THERE'S NO LIMIT ON HOW MANY TIMES IT CAN BE RENEWED.

HOLCOMB HAS DONE IT TEN TIMES SINCE MARCH.

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY CAN ALREADY HALT AN EMERGENCY ORDER BUT ONLY IF IT'S IN SESSION TO DO SO AND WHEN THE LEGISLATURE ISN'T IN SESSION, ONLY THE GOVERNOR CAN CALL A SPECIAL SESSION.

A BILL PRESENTED THIS WEEK WOULD CHANGE THAT.

REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE MATT LEHMAN SAYS UNDER HIS MEASURE, AN EMERGENCY ORDER COULD ONLY INITIALLY BE RENEWED AFTER 30 DAYS IN THE LEGISLATURE IS IN SESSION OR IF THE GOVERNOR CALLS A SPECIAL SESSION.

>> IF THIS IS A GOOD ORDER AND IT NEEDS TO EXTEND THIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS NOT COMPELLED TO ACT.

>> AFTER THAT INITIAL RENEWAL, A PUBLIC EMERGENCY COULD ONLY RUN FOR 60 MORE DAYS UNTIL IT WAS CALLED INTO SPECIAL SESSION AGAIN AND 60 DAYS AFTER THAT AND SO ON.

IF THIS BILL WAS IN PLACE DURING THE CURRENT PANDEMIC, THE GOVERNOR WOULD HAVE HAD TO CALL A SPECIAL SESSION AT LEAST FOUR TIMES.

FOR "INDIANA NEWSDESK," I'M BRANDON SMITH.

>>> THE GOVERNOR'S STATE BUDGET PROPOSAL INCLUDES MONEY FOR A LOT OF ONE-TIME EXPENSES BUT PROVIDES VERY LITTLE RELIEF FOR HOOSIERS SUFFERING THROUGH THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

NOW, IT'S $1.13 BILLION OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS ON INITIATIVES SUCH AS PAYING DOWN DEBT, BROADBAND EXPANSION, AND CASH FUNDING A SWINE BARN AT THE STATE FAIRGROUNDS.

>> WHY WOULD WE NOT INCREASE DOLLARS FOR FOOD BANKS?

THE INFRASTRUCTURE, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED OF FOOD?

>> HOLCOMB'S PROPOSED STATE BUDGET DOES INCREASE K-12 FUNDING BY $377 MILLION OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS.

THAT'S AN INCREASE FROM CURRENT SPENDING OF 2% IN THE FIRST YEAR AND AN ADDITIONAL 1% THE SECOND YEAR.

BUT OTHERWISE, STATE SPENDING WOULD BE THAT FROM THE CURRENT BUDGET.

>>> WELL, THIS WEEK DONALD TRUMP IS THE FIRST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY TO BE IMPEACHED TWICE.

SOME REPUBLICANS JOINED DEMOCRATS IN SUPPORTING IMPEACHMENT, BUT AS BROCK TURNER REPORTS, INDIANA'S REPUBLICANS ALL VOTED NOT TO IMPEACH TRUMP WITH MANY CITING THE COUNTRY'S NEED TO MOVE ON.

>> THE SEVEN REPUBLICAN AND TWO DEMOCRATIC U.S.

REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE INDIANA DID NOT BREAK FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE PARTIES ON WEDNESDAY.

THE HISTORIC IMPEACHMENT VOTE.

>> ACCUSATIONS MUST GO THROUGH THE PROPER DUE PROCESS, WHETHER IT'S ELECTION FRAUD OR AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE, AND SOMEONE WHO DID NOT SUPPORT THE OBJECTION TO CERTIFICATION LAST WEEK, I WILL NOT SUPPORT THIS POLITICAL CHARADE TODAY.

>> AND I'M GOING TO GO OVER ACROSS THE STREET AND VOTE NO ON IMPEACHMENT.

RIGHT NOW IS A TIME TO HEAL AMERICA, BRING US BACK TOGETHER.

NEXT WEDNESDAY I WILL BE ON MY CHAIR OUT ON THE STEPS OF CAPITOL, JUST LIKE I WAS FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN DONALD TRUMP WAS INAUGURATED AND WATCH JOE BIDEN BECOME THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

>> ALSO AMONG THEM WAS VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE'S OLDER BROTHER, INDIANA CONGRESSMAN GREG PENCE SAYING, QUOTE, THE PRESIDENT HAS MADE IT CLEAR HE WILL SUPPORT A PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER ON JANUARY 20th TO PRESIDENT-ELECT JOE BIDEN.

IT IS TIME TO MOVE ON, HEAL AND PUT OUR FOCUS INTO WHERE IT TRULY HELPS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

RECOVERING FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND RESTORING OUR ECONOMY.

NO INDIANA REPUBLICANS IN WASHINGTON AGREED TO BE INTERVIEWED FOR THIS PIECE, BUT REPRESENTATIVE ANDRE CARSON, A DEMOCRAT WHO REPRESENTS MUCH OF INDIANAPOLIS AND MARION COUNTY CALLED HIS DECISION TO VOTE FOR IMPEACHMENT A SAD BUT NECESSARY DOUBTY.

>> THE FACT THAT THE PRESIDENT WOULD USE HIS -- DUTY.

>> THE FACT THAT THE PERFECTES WOULD USE HIS POSITION AND PLATFORM TO INSIGHT MOB ATTACKS ON POLICE OFFICERS AND THE U.S. CAPITOL, AND NOT ONLY IS THAT UNPAY TRYPATRIOTIC, IT'S ALSO UNAMERICAN.

>> AN ALABAMA MAN WAS ARRESTED THIS WEEK AFTER POSSESSING SEVERAL FIREARMS AND A MOLOTOV COCKTAIL, SPECIFICALLY MENTIONING CARSON AS A TARGET NEAR THE CAPITOL.

BUT CARSON BELIEVES THE VIOLENCE IS PART OF AI BROADER A BROADER PROBLEM.

>> AS PAINTING HIMSELF AS A SUPER PATRIOT AND A SUPER HERO, HE ACTUALLY JEOPARDIZED THE STATE OF OUR DEMOCRACY.

>> AARON DUSO IS PROFESSOR.

THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE THE FALSE INFORMATION THAT THAT WAS DISSEMINATED.

IT'S UNLIKELY THAT THE HOOSIERS WILL FACE ANY ELECTORAL CONSEQUENCES.

>> OH, NO.

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

I WOULD EXPECT THEY WILL BE JUST AS SUCCESSFUL.

THEY WILL BE SUCCESSFUL UNTIL, YOU KNOW, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE STATE OF INDIANA HAS A BETTER MESSAGE, A BETTER COUNTERWEIGHT RIGHT NOW.

I DON'T SEE THEM AS A PARTICULARLY ORGANIZED OR CLEAR ON HOW THEY ARE ACTUALLY TRYING TO COUNTER REPUBLICANS IN THE STATE.

>> HE AND OTHER POLITICAL SCIENTISTS SAY VOTERS TYPICALLY HAVE SHORT MEMORIES, BUT MOST AGREE THE IDEOLOGY AND THE NATIONALIST MESSAGE THAT TRUMP HAS USHERED IN WILL CONTINUE LONG PAST JANUARY 20th.

>> WITHOUT REPERCUSSIONS FOR WHAT THEY ARE DOING, THEY WILL CONTINUE TO DO IT.

SO I'M NOT PARTICULARLY OPTIMISTIC IN THIS KIND OF CASE.

I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING AWAY, AND I DON'T THINK TRUMP GOING AWAY IS GOING TO END IT.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT STARTED LONG BEFORE HE, YOU KNOW, CAME ON THE STAGE AND I THINK IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE.

>> FOR "INDIANA NEWSDESK," I'M BROCK TURNER.

>>> THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ATTORNEYS GENERAL PENNED A LETTER THIS WEEK CONDEMNING LAST WEEK'S INSURRECTION AT THE U.S. CAPITOL.

ATTORNEYS GENERAL FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY SIGNED ON TO THE DOCUMENT.

THE SIGNATURE OF INDIANA'S NEWLY ELECTED A.G. TODD ROKITA WAS NOTABLY MISSING.

>> TODD ARE A ROKITA REFUSED TO SIGN THE LETTER FROM THE BIPARTISAN GROUP OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL OFFICIALS.

THE LETTER CALLED THE INSURRECTION A DARK DAY IN AMERICA AND THE ATTORNEYS' GENERAL CHARGED WITH THOSE ENFORCING THE LAW TO MAKE CLEAR THAT VIOLENCE LIKE WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CAPITOL WOULD NOT GO UNCHECKED.

ROKITA SAID HE DID NOT SIGN THE LETTER BECAUSE THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ATTORNEYS' GENERAL DIDN'T RELEASE A SIMILAR LETTER FOLLOWING NATIONAL UNREST LAST SUMMER.

WHILE MOST OF THE PROTESTS IN THE WAKE OF GEORGE FLOYD'S DEATH WAS PEACEFUL, THERE WAS VIOLENCE AND PROPERTY DAMAGE IN SEVERAL U.S. CITIES INCLUDING INDIANAPOLIS.

THIS IS A FALSE EQUIVALENT TO AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AN THE DIRECTOR OF AFRICANA STUDIES.

>> YOU HAVE A GROUP OF PROTESTERS WHO ARE CALLING A REAL ISSUE TO POLICING AND THE WAY THAT POLICING HAPPENS THROUGH THE MAJORITY BLACK AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.

>> RILEY SAYS THAT'S A STARK CONTRAST FROM WHAT OCCURRED LAST WEEK AT THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL.

>> ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU HAVE A GROUP OF WHITE SUPREMACISTS WHO ARE INSPIRED BY AN IMPEACHED PRESIDENT WHO LOST REELECTION THAT ATTEMPTED TO PREVENT A CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS IN TERMS OF CERTIFYING THE ELECTION RESULTS.

SO I THINK THAT THESE ARE CLEAR DISTINCTIONS HERE.

>> ROKITA ISSUED A SEPARATE LETTER ON THE AUGUST LETTER HEAD.

I'M BROCK TURNER.

>> ROKITA'S LETTER CAME DAYS DAYS AFTER THEY PROVIDED $1 MILLION TO ROKITA AND FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL CURTIS HILL.

THE SPOKESMAN DECLINED AN INTERVIEW BUT INSISTED HE HAD NO INVOLVEMENT WITH THE CALL.

>>> COMING UP NEXT ON "INDIANA NEWSDESK," WE GO BACK TO TERRE HAUTE FOR THE LATEST ON THE FINAL THREE EXECUTIONS SCHEDULED TO HAPPEN UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

AND THE CITY CLEARED OUT THE TENT ENCAMP AT SEMINARIAN PARK.

WHICH IS NEXT FOR THOSE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN BLOOMINGTON?

THESE STORIES AND MORE, RIGHT HERE ON THE "INDIANA NEWSDESK."

>> WELCOME BACK TO "INDIANA NEWSDESK."

ATTORNEYS FOR LISA MONTGOMERY SAY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTION AND FEDERAL LAW THIS WEEK BY EXECUTING THEIR CLIENT WHO SUFFERED FROM SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS.

ON WEDNESDAY, MONTGOMERY BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS PUT TO DEATH IN NEARLY SEVEN DECADES.

>> MONTGOMERY'S EXECUTION CAME AFTER HOURS OF LEGAL WRANGLING.

ULTIMATELY THE SUPREME COURT CLEARED THE WAY FOR THE EXECUTION TO MOVE FORWARD.

AS THE CURTAIN WAS RAISED AND THE EXECUTION CHAMBER, MONTGOMERY CHANCED AT JOURNALISTS PEERING AT HER FROM BEHIND THICK GLASS.

>> WHEN YOU ARE IN THE ROOM, THEY GIVE ARE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE A FINAL STATEMENT.

SHE HAD A MASK ON WHILE SHE WAS STRAPPED TO THE GURNEY.

AND SHE ASKED IF SHE HAD ANY FINAL LAST WORDS BEFORE SHE TOOK THE MASK OFF OF HER.

SHE MAYBE TRIED TO RESPOND.

SO THEY TOOK THE MASK OFF AND ASK HER AGAIN IF SHE HAD ANY FINAL STATEMENTS AND SHE JUST SAID NO.

AND SHE DIDN'T TAKE ANYTHING ELSE.

>> AS THE LETHAL INJECTION BEGAN, MONTGOMERY KEPT LICKING HER LIPS AND GASPED BRIEFLY AS THE LETHAL DRUG ENTERED HER BODY THROUGH I.V.s ON BOTH ARMS.

A FEW YEARS LATER, HER MIDSECTION DROPPED FOR A MOMENT BUT QUICKLY STOPPED.

>> SHE WAS LOOKING TO HER LEFT, AND DIDN'T REALLY ACKNOWLEDGE ANYONE ELSE IN THE ROOM.

SHE HAD HER EYES OPENED, BUT SEEMED PRETTY CALM AND EVENTUALLY JUST KIND OF CLOSED HER EYES.

>> AT 1:30 A.M., AN OFFICIAL WALKED INTO THE ROOM, LISTENED TO HER HEART AND CHEST, AND THEN WALKED OUT.

SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD A MINUTE LATER.

>> YOU KNOW, I THINK FOR A LOT OF US, WE EXPECTED TO SEE A LITTLE BIT MORE BUT LISA MONTGOMERY, FROM THE MOMENT WE GOT IN THERE, WITHIN 15 MINUTES, EVERYTHING WAS DONE.

>> THE FAMILY OF BOBBEE JO STENNET, THE WOMAN KILLED IN SKIDMORE IN 2004, DECLINED TO COMMENT ON THE EXECUTION.

MONTGOMERY USED A ROPE TO STRANGLE THE WOMAN WHO WAS EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT AND THEN CUT THE BABY GIRL FROM STENNET'S WOMB WITH THE KITCHEN KNIFE.

MONTGOMERY TOOK THE CHILD OFF AND ATTEMPTED TO PASS THE GIRL OFF AS HER OWN.

MONTGOMERY'S LEGAL TERM SAID SHE SUFFERED SEXUAL TORTURE FOR YEARS INCLUDING GANG RAPES AS A CHILD PERMANENTLY SCARRING HER EMOTIONALLY AND EXASPERATING MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES THAT RAN FROM HER FAMILY.

>> THE GOVERNMENT EXECUTED ANOTHER INMATE LAST NIGHT AND HAS AN EXECUTION SCHEDULED FOR TONIGHT WITH LESS THAN A WEEK UNTIL PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN IS SWORN INTO OFFICE.

THE ATTORNEYS FOR BOTH MEN SAY THEIR CLIENTS ARE RECOVERING FROM COVID-19, AND EXECUTING THEM WOULD CAUSE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT.

THE SUPREME COURT DENIED THAT ARGUMENT THURSDAY NIGHT.

ADAM PINSKER REPORTS.

>> A COURT CONVICTED CORY JOHNSON OF MURDERING SEVEN PEOPLE OVER A THREE-YEAR SPAN TO FURTHER DRUG EMPIRE IN THE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA AREA.

>> THE VERY CONCERNING THING ABOUT HIS CASE IS THAT HE'S NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO PRESENT THAT EVIDENCE IN COURT, THE FULL SCOPE OF THE EVIDENCE.

NO COURT HAS EVER HELD A HEARING TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT MR. JOHNSON IS INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED AND THEREFORE WHETHER OR NOT HE'S CATEGORICALLY EXEMPT FROM THE DEATH PENALTY.

>> JOHNSON'S ATTORNEY SAYS THE GOVERNMENT WITH DREW A REQUEST TO PURSUE A DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST ONE OF HIS CLIENT'S CODEFENDANTS BECAUSE HE WAS DEEMED TO BE INTELLECTUAL INCAPACITATED.

HE SCORED WELL BELONG THE NORMAL RANGE FOR AN I.Q.

SCORE ON MULTIPLE TESTS.

>> HE WAS YOU WILLERLY INCAPABLE OF LEARNING IN SCHOOL.

HE REPEATED SECOND GRADE THREE TIMES.

HE ALSO REPEATED THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE.

>> SALZMAN SAYS THAT HIS CLIENT HAD COVID-19 AND EXECUTING HIM WITH THE DRUGS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT USES IN THE LETHAL INJECTION PROCESS COULD CAUSE SEVERE COMPLICATIONS.

>> WHERE WE HAVE HAD EXPERTS WHO HAVE TESTIFIED THAT COVID, AS PEOPLE MAY HAVE HEARD, DAMAGES THE LUNGS, AND EXACTLY THE SAME PARTS OF THE LUNGS THAT THE DRUG THAT IS USED TO EXECUTE PEOPLE ALSO DAMAGES AND OUR EXPERTS BELIEVE THAT BECAUSE HIS COVID CONDITION MAKES HIM PARTICULARLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO THAT DAMAGE THAT HE'S LIKELY TO SUFFER AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL EXECUTION EXPERIENCING THE FEELINGS OF DROWNING AND WATER BOARDING.

>> A THIRD INMATE SCHEDULED FOR EXECUTION THIS WEEK, DUSTIN HIGGS ALSO HAD THE CORONAVIRUS AND HIS ATTORNEY, SEAN NOLAN SHOWED X-RAYS SHOWED DAMAGE TO HIS CLIENT'S KLUGS LUNGS CAUSED BY THE VIRUS AND HIGGS IS THE HIGGS NOT HIGGS IS THE NOT THE ONLY PERSON ON DEATH ROW TO TEST POSITIVE WITH CORONAVIRUS.

>> WE REPRESENT A NUMBER OF PEOPLE THERE.

>> HIGGS WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN 1996 FOR HIS ROLE IN MURDERING THREE PEOPLE IN THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE IN MARYLAND, BUT HIS ATTORNEY SAYS HIGGS' CODEFENDANT WILLIS HAYNES WAS HIS WING MAN.

>> THIS WAS ALL MR. HAYNES AND THAT HE KILLED THESE WOMEN.

THE JURY DEADLOCKS AND HE GOT A LIFE SENTENCE.

>> THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SAID IN A PRESS RELEASE LAST FALL THAT HIGGS' SENTENCE AND APPEAL WERE AFFIRMED 17 YEARS AGO.

FOR "INDIANA NEWSDESK," I'M ADAM PINSKER.

>> FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS, BLOOMINGTON CITY OFFICIALS WARNED THOSE SLEEPING IN TENANTS OVERNIGHT IN SEMINARY PARK MUST FIND SHELTER SOME PLACE ELSE OR BE REMOVED.

AS ETHAN BURKS REPORTS, THE CITY FOLLOWED THROUGH WITH THOSE WARNINGS THURSDAY NIGHT.

>> JUST AFTER 11 P.M., ABOUT TWO DOZEN BLOOMINGTON POLICE OFFICERS ALONG WITH OTHER CITY WORKERS ARRIVED AT SEMINARY PARK TO START REMOVING TENTS AND CAMPING STRUCTURES.

9 ORDER WAS CARRIED OUT DESPITE MANY LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SEVERAL ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO SAY REMOVING THE ENCAMPMENTS WILL ONLY HURT PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS.

>> PEOPLE ARE KIND OF DISPERSING TO OTHER PLACES IN THE COMMUNITY, WHICH IS HONESTLY REALLY WHAT WE WERE AFRAID OF AND WORRIED ABOUT, IS THAT PEOPLE WOULD GO AND FIND CAMPSITES THAT ARE MORE HIDDEN AND FAR AWAY AND SO WE WOULD HAVE LESS ACCESS TO THEM AND LESS ABILITY TO KIND OF KEEP AN EYE ON THEM.

>> GILMORE DRAFTED A LETTER TO MAYOR JOHN JOHN HAMILTON'S OFFICE ASKING TO PUT A MORATORIUM ON REMOVING THE SEMINARIAN PARK ENCAMPMENT.

IT INCLUDES THE MONROE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND HANDFULS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY COUNCILS, LET'S WORK TOGETHER AND FINE A COMMON SOLUTION, INSTEAD OF TRYING TO FORCIBLY REMOVE PEOPLE.

>> THE CITY BEGAN THE REMOVAL PROCESS EARLIER IN THE DAY WHEN SANITATION WORKERS CLEARED THE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY ALONG SOUTH COLLEGE AVENUE.

TENTSANDAND OTHER PERSONAL BELONGINGS NEAR SWITCH YARD PARK.

>> THAT'S THEIR HOME.

THAT'S THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.

THAT'S WHERE THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE.

THAT'S NEXT TO ALL OF THEIR AMENITIES THAT THEY CAN GET, THE FOOD, THE DAY SHELTER, THE SHOWERS.

SHORT OF THAT, THEY WOULD HAVE TO WALK MILES TO JUST GET WARM CLOTHES.

>> BOTH TELLER AND GILMORE REPRESENT ORGANIZATIONS WHO HAVE BEEN PLEADING WITH THE CITY TO HOLD OFF ON TEARING DOWN THE ENCAMPMENT FOR A LITTLE BIT LONGER.

>> EVERYBODY THAT HAS ANY INVOLVEMENT IN THIS, IS SIMPLY ASKING FOR MORE TIME.

WE HAVE THINGS IN THE WORKS THAT COULD SOLVE THIS.

>> GILMORE PROPOSES A NEW SHELTER IN A YET TO BE DISCLOSED WAREHOUSE, JUST SOUTH OF SEMINARY PARK.

HE BELIEVES IT WILL HELP TO GET MORE PEOPLE OUT OF THE WINTER ELEMENTS.

>> WE COULD PROBABLY OPEN VERY QUICKLY BUT WE'LL HAVE TO STAFF IT UP, WHICH THAT'S WOULD TAKE SOME TIME, AND, OF COURSE, WE WILL NEED FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO DO THAT.

>> GILMORE SAYS HE THINKS THE BUDGET WILL NEED $60,000 TO GET THE SHELTER UP AND RUNNING.

HE SAYS BOTH BLOOMINGTON AND PERRY TOWNSHIP HAVE DONATED 15,000 EACH AND BEACON INC. CAN CONTRIBUTE ANOTHER $10,000.

>> THE LONG-TERM SOLUTION INSTEAD OF DEHUMANIZING OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS WITH ACTIONS SUCH AS SHOWING UP WITH THE GARBAGE TRUCK, TREATING THEM LIKE THEY ARE TRASH, AND UNTIL LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN MADE, I STAND WITH THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND ASK THOSE FOLKS THAT ARE OCCUPYING SEMINARY PARK TO STAY WHERE THEY ARE.

>> BUT BY THE TIME TENTS AND PERSONAL BELONGINGS WERE STRIPPED FROM THE PARK GROUNDS, VERY FEW PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS WERE IN THE PARK.

LOOKING FOR SHELTER ELSEWHERE.

FOR "INDIANA NEWSDESK," I'M ETHAN BURKS.

>> BLOOMINGTON CITY COUNCILMEMBER ISABEL PIEDMONT SMITH IS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO SIGNED THE LETTER TO THE MAYOR.

SHE SAYS THE COUNCIL IS WRITING LEGISLATION THAT WOULD REQUIRE A 15-DAY WARNING BEFORE CLOSING DOWN FUTURE ENCAMPMENTS AND OFFER PROTECTIONS TO ALL PERSONAL ITEMS BEING REMOVED.

>>> WELL, INDIANA'S SUCCESS ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD THIS SEASON PAID OFF FOR HEAD COACH TOM ALLEN.

ALLEN POCKETED AN EXTRA $250,000 IN CONTRACT BONUSES.

HE EARNED $100,000 EACH FOR WINNING THE BIG TEN AND AMERICAN FOOTBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION'S COACH OF THE YEAR AWARD AND INDIANA'S APPEARANCE IN THE OUTBACK BOWL EARNED HIM ANOTHER $50,000.

HAD THEY WON THE BOWL GAME, IT WOULD HAVE MEANT ANOTHER 50 THOUSAND DOLLARS NOR ALLEN.

INSTEAD THE SEASON ENDED NOT AS HE HOPED.

>> WE DID NOT FINISH THE SEASON THE WAY WE WANTED TO.

IT'S A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT FOR MYSELF AND AN EMPTINESS THERE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T GO BACK AND CHANGE.

>> ALLEN BECOMES JUST THE I.U.

COACH TO WIN THE A.F.C.A.

AWARD, JOINING BO McMILLAN IN 1945 AND JOHN PONT IN 1967.

HE HAS A 24-22 RECORD IN FOUR YEARS AT INDIANA.

WELL, THAT'S THE END OF THIS PROGRAM, BUT OUR WORK CONTINUES ONLINE AS WE COVER THE NEWS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK AT WTIUNEWS.ORG.

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND.

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