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HOUSTON — Prosecutors moved quickly Monday to set new execution dates for three inmates, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a reprieve it granted last fall so it could consider the constitutionality of lethal injection.
Last fall, the court blocked the executions of Thomas Arthur of Alabama, Earl Wesley Berry of Mississippi and Carlton Turner of Texas while it considered a challenge to Kentucky’s lethal injection procedures. Last week, the high court ruled 7-2 that the procedures are not cruel.
