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| US Supreme Court clears the way for federal prisoner executions, 1st in 17 years | |
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| After a day’s reprieve, the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the first US federal executions in 17 years to proceed as planned, overturning a federal judge’s order. Four convicts are slated to receive lethal injections. | |
| The early Tuesday ruling by the Supreme Court removed the hold issued on Monday by Tanya Chutkan, a federal judge in Washington DC, which ordered a delay of the four executions to allow a legal challenge over a new lethal injection procedure to be examined. | |
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