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Florida puts man to death as three US executions scheduled for same day

Florida puts man to death as three US executions scheduled for same day

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Indiana executed a man hours earlier, and in Alabama, a man was scheduled to die by injection laterFlorida carried out a record-tying 19th execution of the year on Thursday in an unusual instance of three states administering the death penalty on the same day.Jesse Guardado was pronounced dead at 6.13pm following a three-drug injection at a state prison in Starke, the governor’s office said. Guardado had pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a 75-year-old woman inside her Walton county home in 2004 before stealing her jewelry box, $80 and other valuables to buy drugs. The woman had helped him get a…

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