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• Feds to execute woman who killed victim, cut baby from womb

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  Lisa Montgomery is scheduled to be the first female inmate put to death by the U.S. government in more than six decades

• Death penalty trial date set in slaying of 2 Ga. COs

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  Donnie Rowe and Ricky Dubose are charged with killing COs Christopher Monica and Curtis Billue while escaping from a prison bus in 2017

• Justices reject SD's only death row inmate's case

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  Justices said the arguments from Briley Piper were "untimely" and didn't contest his guilt

• Texas man who spent nearly 40 years on death row released

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  The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Bobby James Moore last year, saying that it would be unconstitutional to execute him because of his mental disability

• Man serving life requests death for Ind. prison slaying

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  Tommy P. Holland is charged with murder in the stabbing of Clifford Baggett at the Pendleton Correctional Facility

• Judge rules for DNA testing in Tenn. death penalty case

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  Pervis Payne has always maintained his innocence in the 1987 stabbing deaths of a woman and her 2-year-old daughter

• Report: Death penalty cases show history of racial disparity

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  The report also takes aim at the federal government's scheduling of executions

• Navajo Nation wants more say over criminal justice matters

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  The Navajo Nation said Lezmond Mitchell's execution highlights a need to restore tribes' ability to determine criminal justice matters on tribal land

• Only Native American on federal death row executed

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  Lezmond Mitchell, 38, expressed no remorse during the public portion of the execution

• Only Native American on federal death row set to be executed

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  Many Navajos are hoping for last-minute intervention by President Trump to halt the execution

• Execution of Native American man stirs emotion within tribe

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  The Navajo government is asking officials to spare Lezmond Mitchell's life on the basis of cultural beliefs and sovereignty

• Lawyers: Autopsy suggests inmate suffered during execution

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  The claim Wesley Purkey may have felt a sensation akin to drowning while immobilized but conscious is disputed by DOJ attorneys

• Native American man on federal death row seeks stay of execution

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  Lezmond Mitchell's attorneys say there's a "substantial likelihood" that the jury was impacted by racial bias

• Neb. governor vetoes death penalty transparency bill

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  The bill was introduced after prison officials closed the witness viewing curtain for 14 minutes during a 2018 execution

• Native American man loses bid to delay federal execution

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  Unless Lezmond Mitchell gets relief from another court or is granted clemency, he will be put to death on Aug. 26

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