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Garland halts federal executions, orders review of protocols

by Colleen LongMichael Balsamo
| July 1, 2021 5:03 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is halting federal executions after a historic use of capital punishment by the Trump administration, which carried out 13 executions in six months.

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