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Ruling barring death penalty against immigrant reversed

by Associated Press
| August 17, 2020 4:03 PM

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court has reversed a lower-court ruling that barred prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against a Mexican immigrant charged with murder in a 2015 killing in metro Phoenix because he was intellectually disabled.

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