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5th federal execution of 2020 on again after drug ruling

by Associated Press
| August 28, 2020 12:03 AM

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The scheduled federal execution of a 10-year-old Kansas girl's killer was back on track Friday after an appellate panel tossed a lower court's ruling that would have required the government to get a drug prescription before it could use pentobarbital to kill the inmate.

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