Executions are to resume in November
From Times Wire Reports
Gov. Charlie Crist signed his first death warrant, ending a temporary halt on lethal injections that was imposed after a botched execution last year.
Mark Dean Schwab, 38, is scheduled to be executed Nov. 15, Crist said in Tallahassee. Schwab was sentenced to death in 1992 for the kidnapping, rape and murder of an 11-year-old boy.
The Republican governor said he was confident lethal injections could proceed in line with constitutional bans on cruel and unusual punishment.
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