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Va. Death Row Inmate Chooses Electric Chair For Execution

When Robert Gleason Jr. walks into Virginia’s death chamber Wednesday night and is strapped into the rarely used electric chair, it will mark the end of a twisted quest to speed his own death.

2013/01/16

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Romney Proposed ‘Foolproof’ Death Penalty In Mass.

As Massachusetts governor, Republican Mitt Romney set himself a daunting challenge: craft a death penalty law that virtually guaranteed only the guilty could be executed, then push it through an overwhelmingly Democratic state Legislature that was leery of capital punishment.

2012/07/16

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Judge Blocks Importation Of Drug Used For Lethal Injections

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the importation of a drug used in executions on grounds the Food and Drug Administration ignored the law in allowing it into this country.

2012/03/27

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