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• Ala. executes man convicted in killing of 3 police officers

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  The U.S. Supreme Court issued a temporary stay to consider last-minute appeals and then denied the inmate's petitions

• Ala. inmate set to die for slayings of 3 police officers

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  Nathaniel Woods is scheduled to receive a lethal injection unless the governor or courts intervene

• MLK's son asks Ala. to stop execution of man convicted of killing 3 LEOs

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  Nathaniel Woods, who is sentenced to die March 5, is one of two men charged in the 2004 ambush killings

• SC mulls electric chair as only option for death row inmates

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  As the state continues to lack the drugs to carry out lethal injections, lawmakers push for an alternative option

• Tenn. governor won't intervene in scheduled execution

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  Nicholas Sutton will be executed Feb. 20 for killing a fellow inmate

• Calif. to move more than 700 inmates off death row

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  The inmates will have a chance to voluntarily transfer to one of eight state prisons

• Attorney general says Okla. to resume executions

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  This is the first time in five years the state will be executing death-row inmates after a series of death-chamber mishaps

• Court overturns death sentence for Texas man accused of killing 5

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  The court said a new legal standard determining intellectual disability had to be applied to Charles Brownlow's conviction

• Texas man executed for killing family

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  Abel Ochoa was executed less than an hour after his final appeal was rejected

• Texas to execute man who killed 5, including wife and children

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  Abel Ochoa would be the second inmate put to death this year in Texas, the third in the U.S.

• Ohio governor delays 3 more executions amid drug shortage

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  Gov. Mike DeWine said the state is unable to obtain the necessary drugs from pharmaceutical companies

• La. executions stall amid legal quandary

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  The state's execution protocols have been tied up in litigation for nearly a decade, during which the death row population has risen to 68

• Execution set for man in slayings of 3 police officers

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  Nathaniel Woods is scheduled to be executed by injection on March 5 at a south Alabama prison

• Ga. man to be executed for killings of 2 people

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  Donnie Lance would be the first prisoner executed in Georgia this year

• 5th condemned Tenn. inmate opts for the electric chair

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  Nicholas Sutton is the fifth inmate in a little over a year to choose electrocution over lethal injection

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