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For the fourth time in 24 hours, the Supreme Court declined to block an execution. On Thursday morning, the justices rejected a plea from Oklahoma inmate Richard Fairchild, who had asked the justices to put his execution on hold to give him time to appeal
The Supreme Court late Thursday night overturned a lower court’s ruling and allowed Alabama to proceed with its plan to carry out an execution, but state prison officials were unable to kill the man before his death warrant expired at midnight. Shor