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STARKE, Fla. —A South Florida drug dealer convicted of killing a state trooper with a pipe bomb will not be executed Tuesday.
Paul Augustus Howell was set to die Tuesday at the Florida State Prison, but a U.S. appellate court temporarily blocked it Monday. The state Tuesday asked Justice Clarence Thomas to lift the stay.
The Jamaican native was convicted of murdering Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Jimmy Fulford on Feb 1., 1992.
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