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    Supreme Court halts another execution

    The U.S. Supreme Court today halted the execution of Mark Dean Schwab, a Florida man convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez.

    This is the latest of several stays of execution by the Court in recent weeks after it agreed to consider whether a three-drug injection cocktail used in Kentucky and other states is unconstitutional in the case Baze v. Rees.

    More from the Associated Press here.

    This entry was posted on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 at 4:03 pm and is filed under Death penalty, Supreme Court. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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