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Judge halts execution amid claims inmate isn’t mentally fit

by Associated Press
| July 15, 2020 5:27 AM

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man, said to be suffering from dementia, who had been set to die by lethal injection in the federal government’s second execution this week after a 17-year hiatus.

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