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Texas set to resume executions after delay during pandemic

by Associated Press
| July 8, 2020 12:03 AM

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The nation’s busiest death penalty state prepared to resume executions Wednesday evening following a five-month delay during the coronavirus pandemic after the U.S Supreme Court rejected three appeals from a Texas inmate condemned for fatally shooting an 82-year-old man nearly three decades ago.

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