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Execution request is challenge to SD high court

Eric Robert is shown in 2005 in Sioux Falls, SD. Robert pleaded guilty to killing CO Ronald Johnson and asked to be executed. But state law still requires the court to review the case and determine if the sentence is proper. (AP Photo)

Honduran inmates tell of horror as hundreds die

Forensic workers zip open a body bag on the patio inside the morgue in Tegucigalpa, Honduras Monday. Experts try to identify the hundreds of prison inmates that died in last week's deadly prison fire. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)

Fla. executes man who raped, drowned woman

Robert Brian Waterhouse died by lethal injection on Wednesday at Florida State Prison. Waterhouse was convicted in 1980 for raping and killing a 29-year-old mother. Denied last-minute appeal (AP Photo/Florida Dept. of Corrections)

Bill seeks force-feeding OK after Utah inmate starves

Carlos Umana is shown in a Salt Lake jail. Umana weighed 77 pounds and died four months later after a hunger strike. A new bill would establish a process for prisons to follow to possibly intervene to protect an inmate. (AP photo)