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But the state legislature passed a shield law last year allowing officials to keep lethal injection drug suppliers private and the state Supreme Court ruled that the electric chair and firing squad would also be available as execution methods.
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Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2024
President Gerald Ford's Republican Daughter Endorses Kamala Harris: 'America Cannot Regress'
On Oct. 31, while appearing at Tucker Carlson's Live Tour, Trump suggested that former Rep. Liz Cheney face a firing squad.
—Liam Quinn, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Dozens of top figures of the previous regime were captured, summarily tried, and executed by a firing squad, night after night, on the roof of a school where the leader of the revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had taken residence in central Tehran.
—Kasra Naji, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2016
It was then scheduled for 2022, when Moore was set to be killed by a firing squad, but his attorneys were able to delay it after challenging the constitutionality of the method.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2024
President Gerald Ford's Republican Daughter Endorses Kamala Harris: 'America Cannot Regress'
On Oct. 31, while appearing at Tucker Carlson's Live Tour, Trump suggested that former Rep. Liz Cheney face a firing squad.
—Liam Quinn, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Dozens of top figures of the previous regime were captured, summarily tried, and executed by a firing squad, night after night, on the roof of a school where the leader of the revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had taken residence in central Tehran.
—Kasra Naji, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2016
It was then scheduled for 2022, when Moore was set to be killed by a firing squad, but his attorneys were able to delay it after challenging the constitutionality of the method.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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And assassins from a coalition of all the local indigenous tribes — out for blood over the murder of Jimmy the Creek, one of their own, last episode — slit the throats of Ming’s rear guard.Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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Indeed, Dnipropetrovsk has been a key rear guard for the Ukrainian military and National Guard.Taras Kuzio, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2015
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The highway patrol identified the inmate as Rashawn Cannon, 27, The Columbus Dispatch reported.Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 26 Dec. 2024
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The patrol has recorded 18,255 move-over violations statewide since 2020.Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2024
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The union hasn’t announced any further pickets, with the last one occurring last week, just before talks resumed.Katie Campione, Deadline, 26 Oct. 2024
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Union members hold picket signs during a news conference following a vote count on the union contract at the IAM District 751 Main Union Hall in Seattle, Washington, US, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024.Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 13 Sep. 2024
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This summer, the hotel added a surf club; there’s also an outpost of Goop, the lifestyle brand of Montecito resident Gwyneth Paltrow.Sheila Yasmin Marikar, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2024
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Then there’s Red Bull’s Brazilian outpost, Bragantino.Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024
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About a quarter-mile down the road, two soaring launch towers – one for each launch pad – sit sentry on SpaceX’s launch site as workers mill around.Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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The treatment involves isolating a patient’s T cells—the sentries of the immune system that strike invaders—and engineering them in a lab to destroy blood cells called B cells that have become cancerous.ByJennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 14 Nov. 2024
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In early 2020, Patek Philippe, regarded by watch collectors as the finest watchmaker in the world, opened a state-of-the-art facility in Plan-les-Ouates, the industrial suburb of Geneva that also is home to Rolex, Vacheron Constantin, Piaget, and other luxury watch factories.Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024
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Housing reports have been and will continue to be a key watch item for investors given that shelter cost inflation has proven extremely sticky and a key source of upward pressure on inflation, which is in turn keeping rates elevated.Zev Fima, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024
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