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A remorseful convicted killer was executed Wednesday night for raping and killing a Dallas woman 17 years ago, the first prisoner in nine months to be put to death in the nation’s most active capital punishment state.
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Junny, the father of 11-yr-old Junny Rios-Martinez holds his shirt alongside his wife, Vicki, as they speak to the media following the execution of Mark Dean Schwab in Starke, Fla. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. His latest appeal was denied by the U.S. Supreme...
