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U.S. to execute first Black man since resumption of federal death penalty

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U.S. to execute first Black man since resumption of federal death penaltyVialva was 19 years old when he and fellow members of a gang in Killeen, Texas, killed Todd and Stacie Bagley, white married Christian youth ministers from Iowa, on the Fort Hood army base in 1999. The Department of Justice says it will kill Vialva, 40, using lethal injections of pentobarbital, a barbiturate, at 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) at its execution chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana, the sixth federal execution this year after the hiatus and the second this week. The U.S. Supreme Court denied Vialva’s application for a stay on Thursday.

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