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    Florida State Prison in Raiford, Fla., where Mark James Asay was held after being sentenced to die for two murders he committed in 1987.
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    Florida Man Is First To Die Under New Lethal Injection Protocol

    Aug 24, 2017
    Mark James Asay was convicted of killing two people in 1987. He was the first white person to be executed in Florida for killing a black person.
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    Nevada Plan To Use Untried Execution Drugs Draws Criticism

    Aug 18, 2017

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prison officials in Nevada are drawing criticism for proposing to use an untried three-drug combination for the Nov. 14 lethal injection of a death row inmate who says he wants to die.

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    Dept. Of Corrections Announces Types Of Drugs To Be Used In Execution

    Aug 18, 2017

    The Nevada Department of Corrections has released the names of the drugs slated to be used in a Las Vegas death row inmate’s execution. 

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    Nevada Death Row Inmate Telling Judge He Wants His Execution

    Aug 03, 2017

    A 46-year-old Nevada death row inmate has again told a state judge that his decision to drop any appeals is firm, and he wants to be executed.

    Federal public defenders also were in the Las Vegas courtroom on Thursday with Scott Raymond Dozier.

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    This undated photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows William Morva at the Greenville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va. Morva is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday, July 6, for the 2006 killings of a hospital security g
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    Voices Far And Wide Try To Sway Virginia Governor To Call Off Execution

    Jul 06, 2017
    William Morva was convicted in a 2006 double murder and is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday night. His lawyers and the European Union say he is suffering from severe mental illness.
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    Florida Gov. Rick Scott last May. Monday he approved the state's first execution in 18 months.
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    Florida Governor Schedules An Execution After Year And A Half Hiatus

    Jul 03, 2017
    Executions have been on hold in Florida since the Supreme Court deemed parts of the state's sentencing procedure unconstitutional in January 2016. Mark Asay is scheduled to be executed on Aug. 24.
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    In March, State Attorney Aramis Ayala announced she wouldn't seek the death penalty in murder cases.
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    Death Penalty Dispute Makes Its Way To Florida Supreme Court

    Jun 28, 2017
    Orlando's chief prosecutor said she wouldn't seek the death penalty, so the governor reassigned her murder cases. She sued to get them back. On Wednesday, the dispute went to the state's high court.
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    Arkansas wrapped up an aggressive execution schedule Thursday, putting to death its fourth inmate in eight days. Kenneth Williams, 38, received a lethal injection Thursday night at the Cummins Unit prison at Varner, Ark.
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    Arkansas Executes 4th Inmate In 8 Days

    Apr 27, 2017
    Kenneth Williams was the final inmate executed as the state sped up its schedule to beat the expiration date of its lethal-injection drugs.
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    James Edmund McWilliams Jr. was sentenced to death in 1986 for the rape and murder of a convenience store clerk during a robbery.
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    Justices Split Over Defendants' Right To Mental Health Expert Witnesses

    Apr 24, 2017
    Justice Anthony Kennedy appears likely to cast the deciding vote in a Supreme Court case involving a death row inmate's right to help from a mental health expert who is independent of the prosecution.
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    Alabama's lethal injection chamber in 2002 at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala.
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    Amnesty Says 2016 Saw Fewer Executions But More Death Sentences

    Apr 11, 2017
    Amnesty estimates China killed more people than all the other countries put together. The U.S. fell off the list of the top five countries to carry out the death penalty for the first time since 2006.
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    States Find Other Execution Methods After Difficulties With Lethal Injection

    Apr 06, 2017
    Nationwide, the number and pace of executions are down, but states are looking at alternative, previous methods after restrictions have increased making the drugs for lethal injection hard to obtain.
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    Orange County State Attorney Aramis Ayala announced last month that she would no longer seek the death penalty in Orange and Osceola counties. On Monday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott reassigned 21 murder cases from Ayala.
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    Florida Governor Pulls Murder Cases From Prosecutor Who Shuns Death Penalty

    Apr 03, 2017
    Gov. Rick Scott is reassigning 21 first-degree murder cases from State Attorney Aramis Ayala, who says seeking capital punishment is not in the best interest of justice.
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    Melissa Cassidy testifies before the Arkansas Parole Board on March 24 in Little Rock, Ark. The board was considering a clemency request from inmate Stacey Johnson, who was convicted of killing Cassidy's sister, Carol Heath, and is scheduled for executio
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    Arkansas Readies For 8 Executions, Despite Outcry Over Pace, Method

    Mar 31, 2017
    The state hasn't carried out an execution in more than a decade, but its supply of the sedative midazolam expires at the end of April. So it plans to execute eight men over 11 days.
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    Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala speaks with reporters about her decision to not pursue the death penalty during her administration.
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    Florida Gov. Removes State Attorney From Death Penalty Case

    Mar 17, 2017
    After saying she wouldn't seek the death penalty, a state attorney was removed from prosecuting a high-profile killing case by Florida Gov. Rick Scott. The state death penalty continues to be debated.
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    Death row inmate Duane Buck, seen here in an undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, won his request for an appeal of his death sentence.
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    Citing 'Racial Stereotype,' Supreme Court Says Texas Inmate Can Appeal Death Sentence

    Feb 22, 2017
    Chief Justice John Roberts calls the case "a perfect storm" of circumstances that culminated in a lower court "making a decision on life or death on the basis of race."
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    The Two-Way
    The death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, as seen in 2005. A federal judge has rejected the state's lethal injection drug protocol, postponing three upcoming executions.
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    Federal Judge Blocks Ohio's Lethal Injection Protocol

    Jan 26, 2017
    The judge rejected the state's use of midazolam, one of the drugs used in botched executions in Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma and Alabama. The ruling puts Ohio's next three scheduled executions on hold.
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    The Two-Way
    Ricky Gray is scheduled to be executed at the Greensville prison in Jarratt, Va., Wednesday night.
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    Virginia Executes Convict With Drug From Anonymous Compounding Pharmacy

    Jan 18, 2017
    The execution of Ricky Gray on Wednesday was the first known instance of a state using midazolam, a sedative, that was not manufactured by a pharmaceutical company.
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    An undated photo shows Tywanza Sanders, who was among the nine people killed by Dylann Roof.
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    'What Happened To You, Dylann?' Victim's Friend Asks Roof At Sentencing

    Jan 11, 2017
    The white man who murdered nine black people in a church in Charleston, S.C., is the first person to receive the death penalty in a federal trial that included hate crimes charges.
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    Nevada Lawmakers Want To End Death Penalty

    Jan 05, 2017

    Eighty-one men sit on Death Row in Nevada, and a new chamber was just built at Ely State Prison. But the last execution took place more than a decade ago.

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    The Two-Way
    Convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof told a federal judge Wednesday that he will not present evidence or witnesses in the penalty phase of his trial. Roof (pictured in 2015) faces the death penalty.
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    Charleston Shooter Won't Call Witnesses, Offer Evidence During Penalty Phase

    Dec 28, 2016
    Dylann Roof is facing the death penalty for the 2015 shooting rampage that killed nine black churchgoers. The self-avowed white supremacist also plans to represent himself.
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    A 2010 photo shows the interior of the lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif.
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    Death Sentences And Executions Are Down, But Voters Still Support Death Penalty Laws

    Dec 20, 2016
    In 2016, 30 people were sentenced to death in America, and 20 people were executed. Both numbers are the lowest in decades, but voters in three states also voted to keep execution on the books.
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    An undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Ronald Bert Smith Jr..
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    Alabama Inmate Coughed, Heaved For About 13 Minutes During Execution

    Dec 09, 2016
    Ronald Bert Smith Jr. died by lethal injection late Thursday night, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution. A judge sentenced Smith to die for murdering a man in 1994.
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    The Two-Way
    Attorney David Bruck was appointed by a federal judge to represent Dylann Roof. Roof was granted the right to represent himself in the federal death penalty case against him.
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    Charleston Church Shooting Suspect Will Represent Himself In Death Penalty Trial

    Nov 28, 2016
    The judge in the federal trial of Dylann Roof, who is accused of murdering nine people in the basement of a historically black church, has ruled that the defendant may represent himself in court.
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    The interior of the lethal injection facility at California's San Quentin State Prison in 2010.
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    California Voters Decide To Uphold Death Penalty, Streamline The Process

    Nov 09, 2016
    California voters rejected a ballot measure that would have abolished capital punishment, and narrowly approved a competing measure designed to speed up the execution process.
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    Workers with the Living United for Change in Arizona organization canvas a south Phoenix neighborhood in October to advocate for the passage of Proposition 206, which would increase the state's minimum wage. The measure was approved on Tuesday.
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    4 States Opt To Raise Minimum Wage; 7 Loosen Marijuana Laws

    Nov 08, 2016
    California and Washington passed stricter gun control measures, Nebraska and Oklahoma both passed measures backing the death penalty, and Colorado became the sixth state to legalize assisted suicide.

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