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Florida Killer's Execution Scheduled Tonight: From the Orlando Sentinel, writer Stephen Hudak reports that Richard Henyard is scheduled for execution for the murders of two Lake County girls. Today he will become the 66th person executed by the state since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Assistant Florida Attorney General Stephen Ake urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to reject Henyard's latest appeal, saying his lawyers "failed to demonstrate any basis" for another review. The nation's high court was pondering a review of Henyard's appeal, which could challenge the constitutionality of lethal injection in Florida. Unless justices decide to look at his case, Henyard faces death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Starke...continue to full post

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