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Supreme Court Stays Texas Execution

HeadlineApr 06, 2011

The U.S. Supreme Court has stayed the execution of a Texas death row prisoner just hours before he was scheduled to be killed by a controversial new procedure for lethal injection. The prisoner, Cleve Foster, was sentenced for killing a Fort Worth woman in 2002. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court agreed to reconsider an earlier order rejecting Foster’s appeal.

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