Mississippi court OKs challenge to questioned execution drug

Friday, December 16, 2016

JACKSON, Miss. -- A Mississippi man sentenced to death for the murder of a community college student won consent from the state's highest court Thursday to challenge a lethal-injection drug that's been blamed for botched executions and other problems around the country.

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