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• Trump administration carries out 13th and final execution

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  Dustin Higgs was convicted of ordering the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge in 1996

• U.S. executes Va. gang killer despite COVID-19 infection

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  Corey Johnson was the 12th inmate executed at the prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, since the Trump administration restarted federal executions

• US carries out 1st execution of female inmate since 1953

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  Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution to move forward

• Judge halts 1st U.S. execution of female inmate in 67 years

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  The order temporarily blocks the federal Bureau of Prisons from moving forward with Lisa Montgomery's execution

• Lawyers: Woman on death row not competent for execution

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  Lisa Montgomery's lawyers filed a petition in federal court in Indiana seeking to halt the execution

• Federal executions paused until COVID-19 measures instituted

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  A judge said the federal government's poor management of the previous 10 executions "has created a substantial risk"

• SC bill would require death by electric chair if lethal drugs unavailable

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  Drug companies won't supply South Carolina with lethal drugs without immunity because they fear retribution

• Appeals court vacates order delaying woman's execution

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  The ruling concluded that a lower court judge erred when he vacated Lisa Montgomery's execution date in an order last week

• Va. advocates set to try again on death penalty repeal

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  Virginia has executed nearly 1,400 people in more than four centuries, more than any other state

• Inmate who survived execution attempt dies; COVID suspected

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  At the time of the 2009 procedure, Romell Broom was only the second inmate nationally to survive an execution after they began in modern times

• Judge delays execution of only woman on US death row

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  The judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution

• Report: Federal execution numbers top states' for 1st time

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  The Trump admin has three more executions scheduled ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden

• Ohio governor: Lethal injection no longer execution option

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  "Lethal injection appears to us to be impossible from a practical point of view today," Gov. Mike DeWine said

• Execution staff have COVID-19 after inmate put to death

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  The disclosure is furthering criticism from advocates and lawyers for inmates who say the BOP isn't doing enough to stop the spread behind bars

• Trump ratchets up pace of executions before Biden inaugural

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  Trump will leave office having executed about a quarter of all federal death-row prisoners

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