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Court OKs 1st federal execution of female inmate in 67 years

by Heather HollingsworthMichael Tarm
| January 12, 2021 9:30 PM

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the Justice Department to carry out the first execution of a female death-row inmate in almost seven decades following a flurry of legal rulings.

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