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• Fla. executes inmate after 23 years on death row

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  Jose Antonio Jimenez was convicted of the fatal stabbing and beating death of a woman in 1992

• Death row executions remain near historic lows in 2018

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  Twenty-five executions were carried out in 2018, the fourth consecutive year in which there have been fewer than 30 executions nationwide

• Texas executes final inmate of 2018

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  Alvin Braziel Jr. received lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the 1993 slaying of a 27-year-old jogger

• Texas schedules last execution of 2018

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  Alvin Braziel Jr., 43, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday for a 1993 murder

• Miss. justices reject challenges over execution drug

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  Mississippi's state Supreme Court on Thursday denied appeals from two death row inmates

• Tenn. electrocutes second inmate in 2 months

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  David Earl Miller was convicted of a 1981 murder and had been on death row for 36 years, the longest of any inmate in Tennessee

• Tenn. to electrocute second inmate in as many months

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  David Earl Miller will be executed in the electric chair Thursday evening for a 1981 murder

• Member of 'Texas 7' gang executed for officer's killing

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  Joseph Garcia fatally shot Officer Aubrey Hawkins during a Christmas Eve robbery in 2000

• Tenn. inmate asks SCOTUS to halt execution

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  The inmate is asking the court to consider his claims that the electric chair is unconstitutional but the state's lethal injection method is worse

• Execution set for 'Texas 7' escapee

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  The 47-year-old inmate was sent to death row in 2003, after being part of one of the largest prison escapes in Texas history

• 2nd Tenn. death row inmate in weeks chooses electric chair

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  Lawyers for David Earl Miller have argued that Tennessee's injection method causes excruciating pain

• Deadline extended for Tenn. death row inmate's execution choice

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  David Earl Miller has until Monday to decide whether he wants to die by lethal injection or electrocution

• Tenn. death row inmate asks Supreme Court to halt execution

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  David Earl Miller's attorneys argue the court needs to give guidance on what inmates must do to establish that a more humane method of execution is available

• Tenn. planning 7 executions after years with none

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  On Friday, the Tenn. Supreme Court set execution dates for death row inmates in 2019 and 2020

• Execution set for Ala. inmate convicted of killing teen

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  The Alabama Supreme Court set a Feb. 7 execution date for Dominique Ray

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