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Executioners sanitized accounts of deaths in federal cases

by Michael Tarm
| February 25, 2021 5:15 AM

CHICAGO (AP) — Executioners who put 13 inmates to death in the last months of the Trump administration likened the process of dying by lethal injection to falling asleep and called gurneys “beds” and final breaths “snores.”

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