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May 4, 2018

Georgia Set to Put Condemned Prisoner Robert Earl Butts Jr. to Death
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The state of Georgia is set to execute condemned prisoner Robert Earl
Butts Jr. tonight. Earlier this week Georgia's parole board issued a
90-day stay to examine his case, but then, 18 hours later, the board
lifted its own stay. Butts will become the 1,475th person to be executed
in the United States since 1976.


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