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Florida Will Carry Out Execution With Never-Before-Used Lethal-Injection Drug

‘GUINEA PIG’

In state’s first execution of white man for killing a black man.

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Florida on Thursday will put to death a man using a lethal-injection drug that has never before been used in a U.S. execution. Justice Barbara Pariente wrote this month—in her dissent from the Florida Supreme Court—that Mark James Asay, 53, is being treated as “the proverbial guinea pig” for etomidate,...

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