(UA 196/10) Great News! Execution Blocked in Kentucky
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September 17, 2010
(UA 196/10) Great News! Execution Blocked in Kentucky
A local judge in Kentucky has blocked the execution of Gregory Wilson, a 53-year-old African American man who was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection in Kentucky State Penitentiary, USA, on 16 September after more than two decades on death row.
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