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The New York Times
Supreme Court Blocks
Fla. Execution
By AP from
nytimes.com on the Web, November 15, 2007
SUPREME COURT -- The Supreme
Court is blocking the execution of a convicted child killer in Florida.
Hours before Mark Schwab was scheduled to die, the high court stepped in, as it
was widely expected to do.
The court is considering the appeals of two inmates in Kentucky who are
challenging the same drug combination that is used in Florida to put inmates to
death.
Schwab was sentenced to death for the murder of an 11-year-old boy. He'd
seen the boy's picture in the newspaper shortly after Schwab was released from
prison on a sexual assault sentence. He gained the confidence of the
family by claiming he was with the newspaper and was writing an article about
the boy.
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