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February 23, 2018

Alabama Halts Execution of Cancer Sufferer over Collapsed Veins
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Meanwhile, Alabama has postponed the execution of death row prisoner
Doyle Lee Hamm after medical staff decided they were unable to find a
viable vein where they could inject lethal drugs. The postponement came
after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Hamm's argument that he has
compromised veins from cancer and past drug use that would have made his
execution by lethal injection unconstitutionally cruel.


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