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International Business Times
International Business Times
Bruce Golding

US Set To Have Busiest Week On Death Row In 20 Years

The death chamber in Huntsville, Texas, is seen on June 23, 2000. (Credit: Joe Raedle/Newsmakers)

A death row inmate who was executed in South Carolina is set to be quickly followed by four others across the U.S., marking a pace of death sentences carried out not seen in decades.

If the executions take place as scheduled, it will be the first time five inmates have been put to death in one week since 2003, the Associated Press reported, citing information from the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center.

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