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Judge halts federal execution after lawyers contract virus

by Michael Balsamo
| November 19, 2020 11:06 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is temporarily blocking the federal government’s plan to execute the first female death row inmate in almost six decades after her attorneys contracted the coronavirus visiting her in prison.

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