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Supreme Court clears path for 8th federal execution

by Jim Salter
| November 19, 2020 8:06 PM

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is clearing the path for the federal government to carry out the execution of a man convicted of kidnapping and raping a 16-year-old Texas girl, bludgeoning her with a shovel and burying her alive.

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