Judge lifts execution stay for ex-soldier in military prison

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas federal judge has lifted a stay of execution for a former soldier sentenced to death for two killings and a series of rapes, inching the man closer to becoming the military's first death sentence carried out in more than a half century.

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