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Florida executes man convicted of fatally stabbing elderly woman in 2004, tying the state's execution record

Florida carried out a record-tying 19th execution of the year in an unusual instance of three states administering the death penalty on the same day. Jesse Guardado was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. following a three-drug injection at a state prison in Starke. Guardado had pleaded guilty to fatally s

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