The Nation - News from Feb. 5, 1985
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A federal appeals court ordered a one-day stay of execution for Carl Ray Songer, scheduled to die this morning in Florida’s electric chair for the 1973 killing of a Florida state trooper. The three-judge panel granted Songer a stay until 7 a.m. Wednesday to allow the court to deliberate on his case. Under Songer’s death warrant, his third, he could be executed any time before noon Wednesday.
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