Florida carried out its 19th execution of the year, executing Frank Athen Walls amid new scrutiny of error-prone Florida Department of Corrections records and the rapid pace of state warrants after courts denied his appeals for relief.The U.S. Supreme Court refused his final stay as national reporting and autopsies raised questions about lethal injection procedures, and a separate Georgia execution was suspended this week following revelations of a conflict of interest.
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