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Navajo on death row faces execution Wednesday, barring last-minute action

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court late Tuesday rejected a last-minute appeal from Lezmond Mitchell, a Navajo on federal death row who is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening for the brutal 2001 murders of a Navajo woman and her granddaughter. Mitchell, 38, has two appeals remaining – a request for a presidential commutation of his […]

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