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Oklahoma Executions

NPR's Madeline Brand reports that the rate of executions this month in Oklahoma is attracting national protest on the part of groups such as Amnesty International. Oklahoma's number of executions is second only to Texas, and is expected to double within the next year. Jesse Jackson planned to lead a march to protest the pending execution of a mentally-disabled Black woman.

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