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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sean Murphy

There are 5 executions set over a week's span in the US. That's the most in decades

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Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S.

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