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• Feds to execute 1st inmate in 17 years for Ark. murders

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  The decision to move forward with the execution during a global health pandemic drew scrutiny from civil rights groups

• US appeals to proceed with 1st federal execution in 17 years

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  The decision to resume executions has been criticized as a dangerous and political move

• Justice Department plows ahead with plan to resume federal executions

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  Bureau of Prisons officials insist they will be able to conduct the executions safely and have been holding practice drills for months

• Texas set to resume executions after delay during pandemic

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  If Billy Joe Wardlow's execution is carried out, it would be the first in Texas since Feb. 6

• Ark. inmate's attorneys seek execution delay due to pandemic

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  Attorneys for Daniel Lee, the first of four inmates set to be executed starting this month, asked a judge to delay his execution until spring 2021

• Priest sues to stop federal execution over coronavirus risk

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  The priest claims BOP is putting him at risk for contracting the coronavirus by moving forward with executions

• Supreme Court refuses to block upcoming federal inmate executions

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  The executions would mark the first use of the death penalty on the federal level since 2003

• New execution dates set for federal inmates on death row

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  Attorney General William Barr directed the BOP to schedule the executions beginning in mid-July

• Ala. county's DA urges new trial for death row inmate

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  Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr took no position on Toforest Johnson's innocence or guilt but said there are concerns about his trial

• Federal judge upholds use of sedative in Ark. executions

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  Judge Kristine Baker ruled the use of midazolam in lethal injections is constitutional and dismissed claims that less painful methods of execution are available

• Federal judge orders new trial for Texas death row inmate

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  Ronald Prible was sentenced to death on a capital murder charge in connection with the slayings of five family members in 1999

• Mo. carries out 1st U.S. execution since pandemic began

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  Walter Barton was put to death by lethal injection for fatally stabbing an 81-year-old woman nearly three decades ago

• Mo. execution to be first since COVID-19 pandemic began

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  Walter Barton, 64, would be the first person executed in the U.S. since Nathaniel Woods was put to death in Alabama on March 5

• Neb. court orders disclosure of execution drug records

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  Lawmakers have rejected shield laws that would have given prison officials the authority to withhold such records

• Ore. to close death row, reassign inmates to other housing

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  The 27 inmates will be moved to general population or special housing somewhere in the state's prison system

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