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Feds put first Black inmate to death since execution restart

by AP Legal Affairs Writer
| September 24, 2020 4:09 PM

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A man who killed a religious couple visiting Texas from Iowa was executed Thursday, the first Black inmate put to death as part of the Trump administration’s resumption of federal executions after a nearly 20-year pause.

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