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CORRECTS EXECUTION DATE TO AUG. 24 - This undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Mark Asay. If his final appeals are denied, Asay is to die by lethal injection after 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. Asay was convicted by a jury of two racially motivated, premeditated murders in Jacksonville in 1987. (Florida Department of Corrections via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Angelo Atwell. In Florida, a 2016 Supreme Court ruling said juvenile offenders who were eligible for parole must be resentenced to ensure they have a real opportunity for release. It involved the case of Atwell, who got life with the possibility of parole after 25 years for a murder he committed at 16. When it came time for Atwell to argue for his freedom, the state calculated his presumptive release date as 2130 — 140 years after sentencing. "While technically Atwell is parole eligible, it is a virtual certainty that Atwell will spend the rest of his life in prison," the justices wrote, and his sentence, "virtually indistinguishable from a sentence of life without parole, is therefore unconstitutional." (Florida Department of Corrections/Miami Herald via AP)
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This undated photo made available by the Florida Department of Corrections shows inmate Freddie Lee Hall. Hall. The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states must look beyond an intelligence test score in borderline cases of mental disability to determine whether a death row inmate is eligible to be executed. The justices said in a 5-4 decision that Florida and a handful of other states cannot rely solely on an IQ score above 70 to bar an inmate from claiming mental disability. Justice Anthony Kennedy said for the court that IQ tests have a margin of error, and those inmates whose scores fall within the margin must be allowed to present other evidence of mental disability. (AP Photo/Florida Department of Corrections, HO)
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This undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Robert Corchado. Authorities are looking for Corchado in connection with an incident Wednesday, April 9, 2014, where a car smashed into an Orlando, Fla.-area day care, killing a girl and injuring 14 others, at least a dozen of them children, authorities said. (AP Photo/Florida Department of Corrections)
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This undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Robert Corchado. Authorities are looking for Corchado in connection with an incident Wednesday, April 9, 2014, where a car smashed into an Orlando, Fla.-area day care, killing a girl and injuring 14 others, at least a dozen of them children, authorities said. (AP Photo/Florida Department of Corrections)
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In this undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections, Robert L. Henry is shown. Henry, 55, is set to die by lethal injection Thursday, March 20, 2014 at Florida State Prison for the slayings of Phyllis Harris and Janet Cox Thermidor. Henry was working at a South Florida fabric store when he decided to rob the place. According to trial testimony, after Cloth World closed for the day on Nov. 2, 1987, Henry attacked the two women who ran the Deerfield Beach business with a hammer and set both on fire. He later called police and claimed someone else had robbed the store, but one of the women survived just long enough to positively identify him as the assailant. (AP Photo/Florida Department of Corrections)
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This undated photo made available by the Florida Department of Corrections shows inmate Freddie Lee Hall. Hall. The Supreme Court will hear an appeal on Monday, March 3, 2014 from Hall, a Florida death row inmate who claims he is protected from execution because he is mentally disabled. The case centers on how authorities determine who is eligible to be put to death, 12 years after the justices’ prohibited the execution of the mentally disabled. The court has until now left it to the states to set rules for judging who is mentally disabled. In Florida and a handful of other states, an intelligence test score higher than 70 means an inmate is not mentally disabled, even if other evidence indicates he is. Hall has scored above 70 on most of the IQ tests he has taken since 1968. (AP Photo/Florida Department of Corrections, HO)
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In this undated arrest photo made available by the Florida Department of Corrections shows inmate Paul Augustus Howell. Howell is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison near Starke, Fla. Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Howell was convicted for the pipe bombing death of Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Jimmy Fulford in 1992. (AP Photo/Florida Department of Corrections)
