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Two condemned killers won 24-hour stays of execution so their attorneys could take their appeals to higher courts, but Florida could still execute them before their death warrants expire. James David Raulerson, 33, convicted in 1975 of killing a policeman, was granted a 24-hour stay so his attorneys could appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Larry Joe Johnson, convicted of killing a Madison County gas station attendant in 1979, also had a 24-hour stay for review of his case by a federal court. Both stays run out at 7 a.m. Wednesday, five hours before the death warrants on the condemned killers expire.

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