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First Federal Execution Postponed
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2000
by Bill Dunne
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2000, page 9
By Bill Dunne
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Sentencing,
Pardons/Clemency,
Death Penalty.
Location:
United States of America.
Federal authorities announced on July 6, 2000, a plan to delay the execution of Juan Raul Garza, previously scheduled for August 5, 2000. Garza was convicted in 1993 in Brownsville, TX, of ordering three drug-related murders, for which he denies responsibility. His execution would have been the ...
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